Today marks the the 274th Anniversary of the start of the 1740 Siege of St Augustine led by British General James Oglethorpe who was the founder of the colony of Georgia. As is well-known Oglethorpe believed in rehabilitating debtors and thus Georgia became largely a penal colony. The area settled around Savannah had long been […]

Today marks the 70th Anniversary of the largest amphibious landing in human history. American, British and Canadian troops stormed the beaches of Normandy in a quest to liberate Western Europe from Nazi domination. The heroism of the “Greatest Generation” of Americans will never be forgotten and should be appreciated by all members of the human […]

Tampa was once the epicenter of mob activity in the Southeastern United States. Cigar City Mafia: A Complete History of the Tampa Underworld by Scott Deitche gives a complete account of the underworld in Tampa which was fueled by gambling, drug running and bootlegging. The book provides a narrative about people and places in the history […]

A scenic and informative circa 1950s video chronicling a boat cruise along the Suwannee River.

  Patricia Lasche Clements who is one of the foremost female historians in the state and was long an active figure in Tallahassee wrote a book in 2005 tying together all the inagural speeches of Governors from William Moseley to Jeb Bush. By perusing the pages of this book you get the sense of how […]

At the end of the Napoleonic Wars many members of the Bonaparte family and other loyalists to Napoleon sought to emigrate to America. It was rumored in fact that after defeat at Waterloo, the Emperor Napoleon himself was on the run looking for passage to America. After the French capture of Southern Italy, Napoleon put […]