Kevin McCarthy (historian)

Kevin M. McCarthy (born 1940) is an American historian, professor and author.^[1] He was born in Gainesville, Florida and returned to live and work there as a professor at the University of Florida. He received the Charlton Tebeau Award (Charlton Tebeau) from the Florida Historical Society in 1994 for African Americans in Florida: An Illustrated History and the Patrick Smith Literary Prize (Patrick Smith) from Library of the Florida Historical Society in 1999 for A River in Flood and Other Florida Stories by Marjory Stoneman Douglas.^[2]

He has written books about various aspects of Florida's history including the history of African Americans in Florida,^[3] He has also written about baseball and football in Florida.^[4]

Books

• Florida Stories (1989)
• McCarthy, Kevin M. (1990). Florida Lighthouses. University of Florida Press. ISBN 978-0-8130-0993-3.^[5]
• The Book Lover’s Guide to Florida (1992)^[6]
• Thirty Florida Shipwrecks (1992)
• African Americans in Florida (1993)
• The Gators and the Seminoles (1993)
• Twenty Florida Pirates (1994)
• Baseball in Florida (1996)^[7]
• Guide to the University of Florida and Gainesville (1997)
• Native Americans in Florida (1999)
• Christmas in Florida (2000)^[8]
• Aviation in Florida (2003)
• African American Sites in Florida (2007)^[9]
• Cedar Key, Florida (2007)^[10]
• The Autobiography of Kevin M. McCarthy (2015)^[11]
• Black Florida
• Caloosahatchee River Guidebook
• Suwanee River Guidebook
• St. Johns River Guidebook
• Castles of Turkey
• Fightin' Gators: A History of the University of Florida Football and aviation.