Category Florida History
Forested trail @ Hugh Taylor Birch State Park
A heavily forested trail on the barrier islands of Hugh Taylor Birch State Park
Second Seminole War begins
On last week’s Florida History Podcast we discussed the beginning of 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 subscribe and listen on your iPhone if you […]
Ocklawaha River and Cross Florida Barge Canal
A great episode of Florida Crossroads from The Florida Channel.
Where does Cricket go in South Florida after this World Cup? Broward County has to consider venue upgrades
NOTE: Kartik Krishnaiyer was a venue Press Officer for the Broward County Venue of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. This column reflects his opinions alone. The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup coming to the USA has been a success. Not only did the US team play well, but the international media that traveled the […]
Florida has a new National Wildlife Refuge
Everglades to Gulf area joins the National Wildlife Refuge system.
The Evolution of South Florida’s rapid/mass transit
Really good video here looking at the evolution of the transit network in southeast Florida over the last 40 years.
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 […]
The Florida Squeeze 