Category Florida History
Updated and better organized Florida and the British prior to the American Revolution is now available
The updated, revised and better organized second edition is now available! Just in time for the holidays! Frankly the first edition was put together hastily and looked more like a long dissertation with binding than a proper book with chapters and pictures but this version fixes that in addition to adding more content. https://amzn.to/3VEF3NG
Welcome to Southwest Airlines Orlando “hub”
Southwest Airlines, the US’ largest domestic airline has flown to Orlando since 1996 and has carried the most passengers every single year at the airport since its merger with AirTran in 2013. But now with Southwest getting a makeover thanks in large measure to activist investor Elliot, Orlando is going to look more like a […]
Florida is where runaway slaves made a stand
We’re sharing this excerpt from my most recent book, The American Conquest of Florida. The ultimate showdown over the future of Florida would take place on the banks of the Apalachicola River in Florida’s panhandle. The site is in present day Franklin County. John and Thomas Forbes The Forbes brothers were Scottish traders that took control […]
Rum Runners and Moonshiners of Old Florida- A second batch…the forward
This book is published by our publishing Arm. Order the book here! It’s difficult for modern Floridians to conceive what prohibition was like even with dry counties in the parts of the state persisting into this millennium. It was a different time – a time of intense factionalism and “wets versus dries” defining everything about […]
The 1968 GOP Convention and Miami riots
Less famous than what happened in Chicago at the DNC later that summer , the 1968RNC riots doomed Claude Kirk’s national political ambitions.
Lincoln’s Ghost wins critical acclaim
“Even a president as down to earth as Harry Truman sometimes wondered if the White House was haunted. Is it? In Lincoln’s Ghost, Robert Buccellato goes searching for the answer. Along the way he brings to life the many strange, weird, and paranormal things our commanders in chief and their families have encountered. Combining rigorous […]
Holiday gift idea: Lincoln’s Ghost
A haunted White House, a naked Prime Minister, an ancient Indian Curse, and a never-ending ghostly party. The definitive collection of over two hundred years worth of Presidential ghost stories. The perfect mix of history, humor, speculation and campfire style ghost stories. Lincoln’s Ghost: Our Haunted Presidency published by the Florida Squeeze is presented in an engaging manner […]
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