We continue our tour around Pensacola-area historic fortifications this week on the Florida History Podcast with a discussion of Fort Pickens. 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 […]

Last week on the Florida History Podcast we discussed the late 19th Century and early 20th Century fortifications around Santa Rosa Island. You can listen to the Florida History Podcast on 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 […]

Here is a video of the General Store at Osceola Pioneer Village.

Did you know the first Thanksgiving was actually in Florida? La Florida, the new book by Kevin Kokomoor, represents a comprehensive look at Colonial Florida including shattering myths which were developed years after fact. The work focuses on the central role Florida played in the origin of the United States including Thanksgiving. The book proves […]

In the next few days we’re going to take a trip around Pensacola and its historic fortifications since the United States took over Florida (in 1821) on the Florida History Podcast. We start with Fort Barrancas. 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 […]

Following up on my two recent releases, Florida and the British before the American Revolution and Florida and the American Revolution, we will reconcile both texts with additional information and completely fresh material from the 1784-1825 time period in Albion Florida. I hope to have the manuscript complete by December so the book can be […]

From the Historical Society of Palm Beach County. We’ve covered this topic frequently on The Florida History Podcast but we haven’t done this comprehensive and concise a job. Check out this video.

A curious English traveler by the name of David Ingram claims to have hiked America in the 16th Century. In his travels which came to light in the 1589 book by Robert Hakluyt, known as “The Principall Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation,” seemed both then and now largely farcical. Ingram claimed to […]

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 a person or an elected official. The country […]

This is an excerpt from the introduction in Kartik Krishnaiyer’s new book Florida and the American Revolution. We learn as young children in school about the American Revolution and the “fight for freedom” of the colonists in the 13 “original” colonies. We learn about how plucky freedom fighting “patriots” fought the greatest world power and […]