An interview with Sean Byrnes, author of The United States and the Ends of Empire: Decolonization, Hierarchy, and World Order since 1776 (Bloomsbury, 2026).

Anne Garland Mahler is an associate professor at the University of Virginia. Her new book is A Wide Net of Solidarity: Antiracism and Anti-imperialism from the Americas to the Globe (Duke University Press, 2025).

We interviewed Scott D. Seligman about his new book, The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906: Antisemitism and the Battle Over Christianity in the Public Schools (Potomac Books, 2025).

Interview with Geoffrey Ward, historian and writer of scripts for Ken Burns. Author of The American Revolution‍ (Knopf, 2025), ‍The Vietnam War: An Intimate History (Knopf, 2017), The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (Knopf, 2014), and others. Script writer of The Civil War, Baseball, The West, Jazz, and more.

Gregory Enns is a fifth-generation Floridian who has been a reporter and editor in Florida and Alabama for decades. He is the founder and owner of Indian River Media Group, which includes Indian River Magazine. He has a new book out with the University Press of Florida: Cow Creek Chronicles: The Rise and Fall of an Early Florida Cattle Ranch.  We interviewed Enns about that book and Florida history.

Jason Vuic’s new book is A Town Without Pity: AIDS, Race, and Resistance in Florida’s Deep South (University Press of Florida, 2025). It comes out 10/21/25, so we chatted with him about the story of Arcadia, FL, in the year 1987, and many other things Florida-related.

An interview with historian Peter Fritzsche about his new book, 1942: When World War II Engulfed the Globe (Basic Books, 2025)

An interview with Joshua Hammer, author of The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, A Soldier a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World’s Oldest Language (Simon & Schuster, 2025)

Interview with Andy Huse, author of From Saloons to Steakhouses: A History of Tampa (University Press of Florida, 2024)

An interview with historian Jeffrey Lesser about his new book, Living and Dying in São Paulo: Immigrants, Health, and the Built Environment in Brazil (Duke University Press, 2025).

An interview with David Morton, author of Motion Picture Paradise: A History of Florida’s Film and Television Industry (University Press of Florida, 2024)

An interview with Robert Darnton, premier cultural historian and most recently author of The Writer’s Lot (Harvard University Press, 2025). The Writer’s Lot is set to be his final book. [This interview is a repost.]

Richard Overy is a premier historian of the Second World War and the Third Reich. He has written over twenty-five books, most recently Why War? (2024) and Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan (2025).

Interview with Geoffrey Ward, historian and writer of scripts for Ken Burns. Author of The Vietnam War: An Intimate History (Knopf, 2017), The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (Knopf, 2014), and others. Script writer of The Civil War, Baseball, The West, Jazz, and more.

Robert Darnton is a premier cultural historian and perhaps the foremost expert on the 18th century republic of letters. He is the author of numerous books, most recently The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 (Harvard University Press, 2024).

An interview with Gosling Press, a small press dedicated to World War I books, with a special interest in campaigns away from the Western Front.

Interview with Wright Thompson about his new book, The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder In Mississippi . This interview also touches on American history and Southern identity.

Interview with Keith Huneycutt, author of The Storm: An Antebellum Tale of Key West, which brings us a previously unpublished novella by an early Florida female author (University Press of Florida, 2024)

Interview with Andy Huse, author of From Saloons to Steakhouses: A History of Tampa (University Press of Florida, 2024)

In order to keep "one foot in Florida, one foot in the life of the mind," we will be regularly featuring interviews with Florida authors.