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.

References

1. "Florida Authors J to P Include Jack Kerouac and John D. MacDonald".
2. "McCarthy, Kevin M. 1940- | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com.
3. "Home". www.floridatoday.com. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
4. "Interview with Kevin M. McCarthy, November 8, 1999". ufdc.ufl.edu.
5. Beachboard, Robert B. (1 October 1992). "Kevin M. McCarthy, Florida Lighthouses (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1990)". The Florida Geographer. 26.
6. McCarthy, Kevin M. (26 October 1992). The Book Lover's Guide to Florida. Pineapple Press Inc. ISBN   9781561640126 – via Google Books.
7. Gilmartin, Daniel (1998). "Review of Baseball in Florida". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 76 (3): 353–355. JSTOR   30148975.
8. "Kevin McCarthy". english.ufl.edu.
9. McCarthy, Kevin M. (26 October 2007). African American Sites in Florida. Pineapple Press Inc. ISBN   9781561643851 – via Google Books.
10. McCarthy, Kevin (26 August 2007). Cedar Key, Florida: A History. Arcadia Publishing (SC). ISBN   9781540217943 – via Google Books.
11. McCarthy, Kevin M. (20 January 2015). The Autobiography of Kevin M. Mccarthy. Createspace Independent Pub. ISBN   9781505954623 – via Google Books.