Historical Non-Fiction for kids

• Fancy Party Gowns: The Story of Fashion Designer Ann Cole Lowe, Deborah Blumenthal
• If Our Hotel Could Talk, 2005 Florida Trust Award Winner by Robin Gonzalez
• Martí's Song for Freedom: Martí y sus versos por la libertad by Emma Otheguy  

Historical Fiction for Juveniles 

• Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski 
• A Land Remembered, Patrick D. Smith

Non-Fiction for Adults About PLANT SYSTEM, RAILROADS, STEAMSHIPS, TAMPA BAY HOTEL

• Tampa Bay Hotel, Heather Trubee Brown and Susan V. Carter
• Henry Bradley Plant: Gilded Age Dreams for Florida and a New South, Canter Brown Jr.
• Henry Plant Pioneer Empire Builder by Kelly Reynolds

Non-Fiction for Adults About Cuban Wars for Independence and the Wars of 1898

• Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba by Tom Gjelten 
• Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer  
• How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by  Daniel Immerwahr

Historical Non-Fiction for Adults About Tampa Bay Region 

• From Saloons to Steak Houses: A History of Tampa by Andrew T Huse 
• More Than Black: Afro-Cubans in Tampa by Susan Greenbaum
• Bubble in the Sun The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression by Christopher Knowlton  

Historical Fiction for Adults About the Gilded Age 

• The Gilded Years by Karin Tanabe 
• The Second Mrs. Astor by Shana Abe 
• The Alienist by Caleb Carr