Monthly Archives: January 2025
The 1970 Governor’s Race
On a recent Florida History Podcast we discussed Reubin Askew’s huge win the 1970 Gubernatorial Election- a result that ushered in a decade of progressive domination in a previously conservative state. 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 […]
Trump coddled China (thus weakening the US) in his first term- 11 points on this
NOTE- this piece originally ran in the summer of 2020. President Trump, last Tuesday held a Rose Garden press conference ostensibly about China and Hong Kong. But instead it descended into a first-rate farce, as he attacked Joe Biden for everything imaginable and talked little about China and even less about a pandemic that is […]
Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Donald Trump and the dangerous game building Plutocracy by importing Indian elites to the US
Donald Trump will return to the Presidency at noon tomorrow. Trump who is always impressionable since he lacks an ideology and is always seemingly in need of money has fallen into a cabal led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy that seeks to continue undermining this country’s labor market by importing “skilled workers” while throwing […]
LBJ and MLK
On this anniversary of MLK’s birthday coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the Federal Voting Rights Act, it is important to think about a time when a southern President who prior to 1957, had opposed Civil Rights effectively partnered with Martin Luther King Jr. The amount of scholarship developed along with screenplays/movies about this period […]
MLK, St Augustine and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
In commemoration of Martin Luther King Birthday in 2025 , it is timely to recall the critical role Florida played in the passage of Civil Rights legislation- specifically St Augustine which the epicenter of MLK Jr. and Southern Christian Leadership Council (SLC) activity during the Senate filibuster of the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964. […]
Andrew Young Crossing in St Augustine
In the past we have discussed the critical importance of Martin Luther King Jr’s St Augustine campaign and its impact on the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In 2011, the City of St Augustine dedicated a memorial to the steps taken by one of King’s right-hand men, future Congressman, UN Ambassador and Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young. Here is […]
Reubin Askew’s great Governorship
On a recent Florida History Podcast we discussed the transformative and remarkable Governorship of Reubin Askew. 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 subscribe and listen on your iPhone if […]
Battle of Pine Island Ridge
Pine Island Ridge was the assumed site of a decisive battle in the Second Seminole War.
The Florida Squeeze 