Monthly Archives: June 2024
Perdido Key State Park
One of the three state parks that are near the Alabama boundary in Escambia County
The military officers who became famous after the Second Seminole War
The Second Seminole War was a great military training ground for some of the most famous officers in American History. On this past week’s Florida History Podcast, we discussed that legacy. 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 […]
May 20 – Florida’s Juneteenth
Juneteenth is now a Federal Holiday but that commemorates the ending of slavery in Texas – not Florida. While slavery was abolished in Florida technically by the Emancipation Proclamation, it was on May 20, 1865 that Emancipation was proclaimed aloud in Tallahassee, the state capital. Tallahassee had been the only Confederate capital east of the […]
Juneteenth Reading: Monroe Doctrine Impact on Slavery and the Saltwater Railroad
The following is an excerpt from my book – The American Conquest of Florida — It’s not discussed much in relation to the Monroe Doctrine which is hailed as a triumph of American anti-imperialism. But what it was also doing was announcing to the British and the Spanish that our policy on slavery was really […]
Juneteenth Florida History Podcast listening for this week
We have several previous editions of the Florida History Podcast that are worth checking out as we enter Juneteenth week. Zora Neale Hurston Mary McLeod Bethune Florida’s First African-American Elected Officials: Josiah Walls Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs A three-part series on original Underground Railroad which went to Florida. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 — Angola […]
Andrew Jackson, Manifest Destiny and the Seminoles
On a recent Florida History Podcast we discussed Andrew Jackson’s Manifest Destiny push and how it led directly to the Second Seminole War. 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 enable you to […]
The fall of Nickelodeon Studios Florida
We recently discussed on The Florida History Podcast the fall of Nickelodeon Studios Florida – below is a great video about the same topic from Bright Sun Films.
The Florida Squeeze 