Having recently, once again visited the Mission San Luis de Apalachee, this week’s Florida History Podcast which is part of our ongoing Albion Florida series was particularly poignant and sad. It was there, in modern-day Tallahassee that the English committed the atrocities that destroyed La Florida . In the late 1600’s, St Augustine was arguably […]

This audio will be part of a longer podcast on the period from 1763 to 1775 released next month, but for TFS+ subscribers only, we are releasing this portion early.  New Smyrna was a unique British settlement in North America and eventually was populated largely by Catholics and Greek Orthodox Christians, incredibly unique for British […]

In our continuing look at Mission San Luis de Apalachee a short video of the central square/plaza.

On this week’s Florida History Podcast, we discuss the beginning of Queen Anne’s War – the origins of the war, how Florida attracted runaway slaves from English Carolina and the invasion of Florida in 1702. 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 […]

With Russia invading Ukraine this week, never a better time to visit the memorial the French Republic sent to Florida thanking us for the Liberation of France in 1944. This memorial is at Lake Ella in Tallahassee

Today, we air the first of what will be an extensive video series on the Mission San Luis de Apalachee which will accompany our ongoing Florida History Podcast series on colonial Florida, Albion Florida.

On this week’s Florida History Podcast, we discuss the events in the 1600’s that led the Spanish Crown to build a permanent fort in St Augustine after allowing the capital of La Florida to remain vulnerable to attack for over a 100 years. You can listen to the Florida History Podcast on Anchor (which hosts our show), Spotify, Google, Apple […]

For President’s Day 2022, check out our TFS Documentaries on the 1960, 1976 and 1992 Presidential Campaigns as well as some Florida specific documentaries.

In the introduction to our series designed to bust historical myths, we discuss why Florida was different than the other European colonies in North America as well as discussing the El Camino Real road that connected St Augustine with towns in the interior of the colony.  You can listen to the Florida History Podcast on Anchor (which […]

In this short promo we discuss why contemporary events as well as the mythical telling of American history – historical whitewashing and marginalization of Florida’s role in history prompted us to do this series.