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.

This is the final book in the Albion Florida series and we cover the period from 1784 to 1825. The Spanish re-assumed control of East Florida in 1784 when the British ceded the colony. West Florida has been under Spanish administration since 1781. The next few decades would be engulfed in tumult with incursions into […]

All month long we’ll feature key black history stories from Florida History here at TFS.

We preview why we’re doing the new series on Jeffersonian Florida. So much of Florida’s political, social and economic history for better and worse was molded by Jeffersonian philosophy.

On Saturday this past week, the 1838 Battles of the Loxahatchee were reenacted at Battlefield Park in Jupiter Farms. Here is a photo gallery of the event, and I would encourage all those interested in Florida History to attend a future reenactement at the site which is managed by Palm Beach County.

Excerpt from The American Conquest of Florida In terms of Florida, Jeffersonian’s saw the area as a perfect place to expand the plantation slave-based economy and eventually bring into the union as a slave state. Spain’s desperation to repopulate the colony led to incentives to new settlers from the American south. This also meant Spain […]

Dr. Angela Zombek of UNC-Wilmington joins us to discuss the history of a unique place that sits at the mouth of Tampa Bay – Egmont Key. 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 […]

Fort Myers came of age during the Third Seminole War (1855-1858), the often forgotten about conflict that capped almost fifty years of war in Florida.

On this past week’s Florida History Podcast we discussed Miami’s Fort Brickell and its role in the Spanish-American War of 1898 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 […]

Buy your copy here! Introduction to the book: In 2023, Ridley Scott directed a film about Napoleon that was a box-office sensation. The resulting revival in the interest in the Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon corresponds nicely with the issuing of this third and final volume of the Albion Florida series. This is […]