American politics and government was largely shaped by the polarizing Jackson era. The Democrats became a party shaped by Andrew Jackson’s personality and his supporters (Similar to today’s Republicans with Donald Trump) while Jackson’s foremost opponent, Henry Clay became a member of a new party called the Whigs which basically was a bunch of people […]

On the backs of our successful documentary on Jimmy Carter’s 1976 campaign, we’ll be releasing a similar original film on the 1992 campaign won by Bill Clinton– Thursday at Noon eastern time. Trailer below:

  This week’s Florida History Podcast is on Dan McCarty’s political career- a transformative figure in Florida Politics, McCarty was the first resident of South Florida ever elected Governor. He was also what we would consider the first “National Democrat” post-FDR to be elected statewide in Florida. He died just months into his term. Robert […]

President Trump’s lack of a hardened ideology and die-in-the-wool electoral base makes it far easier for someone like him to nimbly position himself wherever he needs to be, without serious political consequence. Very cleverly while much of the media obsesses about how he handled the early stages of COVID-19, Trump is completing a ideological shift […]

In the event you are scrambling for a late Florida-themed Christmas gift, I have a suggestion. A Land Remembered is perhaps the most fascinating historical fiction book about the state of Florida. No book describes old Florida and the transformation to modern state quite like A Land Remembered by Patrick D. Smith. The author who was nominated […]

 Happy Days Are Here Again: The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence of FDR–and How America Was Changed Forever,  The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope,  and American Experience: FDR Being a Democrat today inevitably leads back to the New Deal and how the party structure in the United States essentially changed at that point […]