Kevin M. McCarthy (born 1940) is an American historian, professor and author. He was born in

Gainesville, Florida Gainesville is the county seat of Alachua County, Florida, United States, and the most populous city in North Central Florida, with a population of 145,212 in 2022. It is the principal city of the Gainesville metropolitan area, Florida, Gainesv ...

and returned to live and work there as a professor at the

University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida and a preem ...

. He received the Charlton Tebeau Award (

Charlton Tebeau Charlton W. Tebeau (1904–2000) was the former chairperson of the department of history and a professor of history at the University of Miami and an American historian and author who specialized in the history of Florida. Born in Springfield, G ...

) from the

Florida Historical Society The Florida Historical Society is an independent, member-supported, 501c(3) not-for-profit organization incorporated in 1856 that publishes the journal ''Florida Historical Quarterly'', originally the ''Florida Historical Society Quarterly,'' an ...

in 1994 for ''African Americans in Florida: An Illustrated History'' and the Patrick Smith Literary Prize ( Patrick Smith) from Library of the

in 1999 for ''A River in Flood and Other Florida Stories by Marjory Stoneman Douglas''. He has written books about various aspects of Florida's history including the history of African Americans in Florida, He has also written about baseball and football in Florida.

Books

*''Florida Stories'' (1989) * * ''The Book Lover’s Guide to Florida'' (1992) *''Thirty Florida Shipwrecks'' (1992) *'' African Americans in Florida'' (1993) *'' The Gators and the Seminoles'' (1993) *''Twenty Florida Pirates'' (1994) *''Baseball in Florida'' (1996) *''Guide to the University of Florida and Gainesville'' (1997) *''Native Americans in Florida'' (1999) *''Christmas in Florida'' (2000) *''Aviation in Florida'' (2003) *''African American Sites in Florida'' (2007) *''Cedar Key, Florida'' (2007) *''The Autobiography of Kevin M. McCarthy'' (2015) *''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

21st-century American historians 20th-century American historians Historians from Florida 1940 births Living people {{US-historian-stub