Kevin McCarthy (historian)

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Kevin M. McCarthy (born 1940) is an American historian, professor and author.^[1] He was born in Gainesville, Florida and returned to live and work there as a professor at the University of Florida. He received the Charlton Tebeau Award (Charlton Tebeau) from the Florida Historical Society in 1994 for African Americans in Florida: An Illustrated History and the Patrick Smith Literary Prize (Patrick Smith) from Library of the Florida Historical Society in 1999 for A River in Flood and Other Florida Stories by Marjory Stoneman Douglas.^[2]

He has written books about various aspects of Florida's history including the history of African Americans in Florida,^[3] He has also written about baseball and football in Florida.^[4]