Today my home state of Florida lost one of its dearest and truest friends. In a state as divided as ours it’s sometimes difficult to find a unifying presence that everyone could get behind. Jimmy Buffett was such a figure. The poet laureate of beachfront observations, the Lincoln of flip flop melodies. Part buzzed soulful […]

My newest book, Florida and the American Revolution which will focus on the unheralded and underappreciated role Florida played in the Revolutionary War is now available for preorder on Kindle and is now available in paperback for immediate shipment. I have already fielded questions about whether this is a “pro British” book. I think it’s […]

Join us every Tuesday in the next few months for a tour around the state as we visit Florida’s forts and the history behind them. From Dry Tortugas to Pensacola, the Sunshine State is covered with forts that have seen action in wars from the 1500’s onward. We will discuss them all in this podcast […]

Kartik Krishnaiyer’s newest book, Florida and the American Revolution is due out November 15. This week, I had an opportunity to visit Seaton Creek Preserve in Duval County which contains the the pictured historical marker discussing the southernmost battle of the American Revolution – the Battle of Thomas Creek. It is important to note that […]

During our recent series on Andrew Jackson on Florida, we told about another side of John Quincy Adams – the side that sided with Andrew Jackson on the illegal incursion by the United States into Florida. But Adams later in life became an outspoken opponent of slavery and opposed the American efforts to force the […]

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 […]

Another new book from A Florida Squeeze Publication, focusing on Florida and the American Revolution should be complete and published by the end of 2023. Stay tuned to The Florida Squeeze for updates.

In Robert Buccallato’s other works about the state we’ve seen the evolution of Florida from small town oriented and reactionary to urban megastate. In Finding Dan McCarty, Buccallato brilliantly articulates an era of Florida politics and growth where the counties of South Florida who were driving the state’s economic growth were in a tussle to […]

This was a great podcast discussion between myself and Ryan Ray about Colonial and Contemporary Florida, and tying it all together. We discuss my recent book release, as well as Governor DeSantis fundamental (almost purposeful) misreading of our state’s own rich cultural heritage and history. Florida was different than other colonies in colonial America and […]

In honor of release of Robert’s new book, Rum Runners and Moonshiners of Old Florida, Volume Two we discuss the era of prohibition in the state. We look back at the lawlessness and independent streak in the Florida Panhandle as discussed in Rum Runners and Moonshiners of Old Florida as well look at the impact of the prohibition era […]