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 you do not use the Apple Podcast app. We release a new episode weekly. All the […]

Florida History Podcast- Josiah T. Walls. Republican Josiah T. Walls was Florida’s first African-American Congressman, and a powerful symbol of the Reconstruction era in the state. Walls was born into slavery in Virginia and captured by the Union Army during the Peninsula Campaign. Eventually he was discharged in Florida after the Battle of Olustee and […]

In our first video on Jeffersonian Florida we discuss how American authorities led by President Jefferson were actually more interested in purchasing Florida (and claimed they had purchased it) rather than Louisiana.

Dr Angela Zombek of UNC-Wilmington joined us on a recent Florida History Podcast to discuss an area of expertise that she’s written extensively on – Key West and the Civil 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 […]

We discuss the 1565 Matanzas Massacre in the latest Florida History Podcast. 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 you do not use […]

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 not the business  of European powers. This was done once […]

Robert Buccellato and I will be launching a new season of The Florida History Podcast later this month. This new season will focus on aspects related to Disney setting up shop in Florida and the Amusement Park culture in Central Florida. More details coming soon.