Florida During World War I
During 2017, Florida commemorated the 100th anniversary of the United States' entry into World War I. This effort was in partnership with the U.S. World War One Centennial Commission.
To that end, this guide from the State Library of Florida explores Florida’s wartime history and heritage.
Materials are generally available through interlibrary loan from our circulating collection.
Links within the bibliographies take you to information in our State Library catalog or to more information on external sites.
Books and articles
- Adams, Eustace L. A Knight Comes Flying. New York, NY: L. MacVeagh, 1931.
- Cassanello, Robert. “Violence, Racial Etiquette, and African American Working-Class Infrapolitics in Jacksonville During World War I.” Florida Historical Quarterly 82.2 (2003): 155–169.
- Curnutt, Kirk, and Gail D. Sinclair, eds. “Hemingway’s Key West Band of Brothers: The World War I Veterans in ‘Who Murdered the Vets?’ and To Have and Have Not.” Key West Hemingway: A Reassessment. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2009. 241–266.
- Davis, Fred H. “Leon County During the World War.” Tallahassee Historical Society Annual 3 (1937): 27–52.
- Flynt, J. Wayne. “Waging War and Peace in Florida.” Cracker Messiah: Governor Sidney J. Catts of Florida. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1977. 162–194.
- Kerber, Stephen. Park Trammell of Florida: A Political Biography. Diss. University of Florida, 1979.
- Keuchel, Edward F. “A Purely Business Motive: German-American Lumber Company 1901-1918.” Florida Historical Quarterly 52.4 (1974): 381–395.
- Ortiz, Paul. "Echoes of Emancipation: The Great War in Florida." Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida From Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005. 142-170.
- Paisley, Clifton. “Thirty Cent Cotton at Lloyd, Florida: 1916-1919.” Florida Historical Quarterly 49.3 (1971): 219–231.
- Pearce, George F. “The Air Station During World War I and the 1920s.” The U.S. Navy in Pensacola: From Sailing Ships to Naval Aviation, 1825-1930. Pensacola, FL: University Presses of Florida, 1980. 148–179.
- Ripley, C. Peter. “Intervention and Reaction: Florida Newspapers and United States Entry Into World War I.” Florida Historical Quarterly 49.3 (1971): 255–267.
- Shofner, Jerrell H. "Florida and the Black Migration." Florida Historical Quarterly 57.3 (1979): 267-288.
- Turner, Gregg M. “Those Effortless Riches.” The Florida Land Boom of the 1920s. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 11–20.
State publications
- Florida Department of Military Affairs. Florida Fatal Casualties (All Services) World War I, World War II. St. Augustine, FL: Florida State Arsenal.
- Florida Department of Military Affairs. Florida: U.S. Army Wounded: World War I. St. Augustine, FL: Florida State Arsenal.
- Florida Department of Military Affairs. Florida Veterans of the First World War, All Services, 1917-1919. St. Augustine, FL: Florida State Arsenal.
- Florida Department of Military Affairs. Floridians: U.S. Coast Guard, World War I. St. Augustine, FL: Florida State Arsenal, 1988.
- Florida Department of Military Affairs. Floridians: U.S. Marine Corps, World War I. St. Augustine, FL: Florida State Arsenal, 1988.
- Florida Department of Military Affairs. Floridians: U.S. Navy, World War I: Abish to Ayers. St. Augustine, FL: Florida State Arsenal, 1988.
- Florida Department of Military Affairs. Foreign Service Decoration, POWs, Citations: Floridians, World War I. St. Augustine, FL: Florida State Arsenal, 1991.
- Florida Department of Military Affairs. Summary Statistics: Florida Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, World War I. St. Augustine, FL: Florida State Arsenal, 1992.
- Florida Department of Military Affairs. World War I Mobilization Lists, 1st Florida, 1917. St. Augustine, FL: Florida State Arsenal.
Florida Memory
- State Archives of Florida. “Commission of Lew B. Brown as Major Commanding the Pinellas County Guards, 1917.” Florida Memory. Florida Division of Library and Information Services.
- State Archives of Florida. “County Guard Commissions, 1917-1919.” Florida Memory. Florida Division of Library and Information Services.
- State Archives of Florida. “World War I Service Cards.” Florida Memory. Florida Division of Library and Information Services.
- State Library of Florida. “Broadside Encouraging Support for the All-American Sugar League and Sugar Production in Florida.” Florida Memory. Florida Division of Library and Information Services.
- State Library of Florida. “Card From the State Board of Health Encouraging the Public to Reduce Exposure to Flies.” Florida Memory. Florida Division of Library and Information Services.
