Category Florida History
British Florida 1763-1775
On this week’s Florida History Podcast, we set the stage for a sweeping narrative in the coming weeks on the American Revolutionary War in Florida, by discussing the period of British rule prior to the initiation of hostilities. We discuss the re-population of St Augustine, Pensacola’s importance, the founding of New Smyrna Beach, the early […]
Florida becomes British – Florida’s importance to the British Empire
Florida Albion Podcast Archives In this episode we discuss the British takeover of Florida and why the British made Florida an important strategic point in their empire. Florida was , contrary to the mythical American narrative about the era, critical between 1763 and 1782. We begin the road to the American Revolution with this episode. […]
The economy of slavery, the 1740 Siege of St Augustine and the War of Jenkins Ear
Slavery created an economic system that wasn’t long-term beneficial to the American south. We discuss on this week’s Florida History Podcast, how the system of slavery in the south kept the economy of the region down as a lead in to discuss the 1740 Siege of St Augustine and the War of Jenkins Ear which […]
The Stono Rebellion, Runaway slaves, free African-Americans and the start of the War of Jenkins Ear
In the fifth installment of our Albion Florida podcast series, we discuss runaway slaves from the Carolina’s coming to Florida, the tension along the Florida-Georgia border following the formation of Georgia, free African-Americans founding Fort Mose and the initiation of the War of Jenkins Ear. You can listen to the Florida History Podcast on Anchor (which hosts […]
Happy 95th Anniversary Pan Am! Remembering FDR’s first Presidential flight, on Pan Am from Miami
Today is the 95th Anniversary of the founding of the greatest name in aviation, Pan American World Airways. The first Pan Am flight was from Key West to Havana. We discuss Pan Am’s history also discuss President Franklin Roosevelt becoming the first US President to take a plane flight, flying overseas to the wartime Casablanca […]
95th Anniversary of Pan Am – the Florida rebirth of 1996
In September 1996, less than five years after the original Pan American World Airways had made its last flight (December 4, 1991 from Barbados to Miami) a new airline with the classic name took the skies. The airline was a marriage of the estate of the defunct Eastern Airlines and Florida Businessman Chuck Cobb who […]
Albion Florida updated podcast release schedule
Episode 1- Introduction, El Camino Real and why Florida was different Episode 2- Building the Castillo de San Marcos Episode 3- Queen Anne’s War Part 1- March to war, Battle of the Flint River, Siege of St Augustine Episode 4- Apalachee Massacre, destruction and depopulation of Spanish La Florida Episode 5- Runaway slaves, free African-Americans and the start of […]
Editorial: Remember in November that Florida GOPers mean what they say
For years, a debate has circulated among opinion leaders in this state. Do elected GOPers really intend to end access to reproductive rights in this state? Are they really homophobic? Do they really have an issue with talking about this nation’s past racism? The assumption had often been that the GOP uses these provocative hot-button […]
The Florida Squeeze 