Introduction / Michael Gannon -- Original inhabitants / Jerald T. Milanich -- First European contacts / Michael Gannon -- The land they found / Paul E. Hoffman -- Settlement and survival / Eugene Lyon -- Republic of Spaniards, Republic of Indians / Amy Turner Bushnell -- The missions of Spanish Florida / John H. Hann -- Raids, Sieges, and international wars / Daniel L. Schafer -- Pensacola, 1686-1763 / William S. Coker -- British rule in the Floridas / Robin F. A. Fabel and Daniel L. Schafer -- The second Spanish period in the two Floridas / Susan Richbourg Parker and William S. Coker -- Free and enslaved / Jane Landers -- Florida's Seminole and Miccosukee peoples / Brent R. Weisman -- U.S. territory and state / Daniel L. Schafer -- The Civil War, 1861-1865 / Robert A. Taylor -- Reconstruction and renewal, 1865-1877 / Jerrell H. Shofner -- The first developers / Thomas Graham -- Fortune and misfortune: The paradoxical 1920s / William W. Rogers -- The Great Depression / William W. Rogers -- World War II / Gary R. Mormino -- Florida by nature: a survey of extrahuman historical agency / Jack E. Davis -- The maritime heritage of Florida / Della A. Scott-Ireton and Amy M. Mitchell-Cook -- Florida politics: the state evolves into one of the nation's premier political battlegrounds / Susan A. MacManus and David R. Colburn -- Florida's African American experience: the twentieth century and beyond / Larry Eugene Rivers -- Immigration and ethnicity in Florida history / Raymond A. Mohl and George E. Pozzetta -- Boom, bust, and uncertainty: a social history of modern Florida / Raymond A. Mohl and Gary R. Mormino.