Monthly Archives: April 2024
Second Seminole War: A new Florida History Podcast season is on the way!
Our Florida History Podcast season on Disney and Florida is still several weeks from completion but we’re in the planning stages for a new season on the Second Seminole War. If our readers and listeners have any thoughts on topic areas or questions please leave them in the comments section. You can listen to the […]
PBS American Experience on Zora Neale Hurston
One of the most famous African-American women in the history of Florida was the subject of an American Experience documentary last year. Recently, PBS released the whole nearly two-hour documentary on YouTube.
Sea World and other tier 2 Central Florida attractions
On this past week’s Florida History Podcast, we discuss Sea World Orlando and other amusement parks that have popped up (and some disappearing) in Central Florida. You can listen to the Florida History Podcast on Anchor (which hosts our show), Spotify, Google, Apple Podcasts, Radio Public, Breaker, Overcast, Castro or Pocket Casts. Overcast, Castro, Spotify, Radio Public and Breaker have App Store apps for free which […]
DeSantis politicizes transportation and declares war on working class and multi-modal transit
Governor DeSantis outrageously claimed he was “depoliticizing” transit last week with some condescending and crazy commentary. My response was starightforward The transportation agenda of DeSantis is to punish working class people for taking buses, prevent bike riding in big cities and suburban areas which also is a form of income discrimination AND obsesses over how […]
Jeffersonian Florida:Secession and Confederate Florida
Was it Jeffersonian to secede or was it the rich elite planter class that betrayed Jeffersonian principles? Whatever the case, by the 1850’s Jeffersonian politics meant a robust defense of slavery.
RFK Jr. ,Nicole Shanahan, the donor class and the politics of victimization
For a third party candidate to be anything but a spoiler they must articulate a different point-of-view from the two major political parties. This week Robert Kennedy Jr. picked Nicole Shanahan as his running mate. Kennedy’s backers have assailed the donor class and corporate control of politics, yet their man has picked a classic insider/donor-class […]
Abortion puts Florida in play? Probably not but it could help Democrats down ballot- it should be a year of the liberal woman elected official
We’ve heard a lot of national media analysis the last 36 hours – quite frankly analysis from people who know very little about Florida or understand the rapidly changing demographics of this state. Or understand that we have a history of liberal ballot initiatives that did very little to impact the general election in the […]
The Florida Squeeze 