Category Florida History
Leroy Collins at Selma and 1968
On this week’s edition of The Florida History Podcast, we discuss Governor Leroy Collins historic work after leaving the Governorship. Collins played a critical and often under-discussed role in ensuring the Selma to Montgomery march went ahead and ran in 1968 for the US Senate – a race where his moderate racial views ran head […]
Florida Governors and Civil Rights
In this week’s edition of the Florida History Podcast we look at the contrasting approach of 20th Century Florida Governors toward African-Americans and Civil Rights. 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 […]
Video series on India-China dispute
On my Twitter feed, I am providing several short videos (about 2 minutes each) explaining the history behind the India-China border dispute. It’s meant as an informative beginner’s primer not as in-depth analysis. The videos will be released over the next few days and threaded together. In the future, I may release a longer-form video […]
JetBlue making major Florida push with several exciting new routes
JetBlue Airways announced a significant expansion to its route network on Thursday. Included in the announcement was the launching of a new base at Newark. The new base will compliment the airline’s large hub at New York-JFK. The New York-based airline has focus cities in New York, Boston, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando and San Juan. COVID-19 […]
Election 2020 – Same as it ever was?
Could history serve as a guide in the 2020 election? With headlines about racial violence, protests and riots, 2020 seems reminiscent of 1968. Racial strife and division of 1967 and 1968 set the stage for the law and order candidacy of Richard Milhous Nixon. President Trump, who recently reaffirmed his claim to being a “law […]
Lynchings, the KKK, Willis McCall and legislative racial reconciliation in Florida: A short history
In this week’s Florida History Podcast we discuss the history of lynchings in Florida and the debate over racial reconciliation in the 1990’s and 2000’s related to lynchings and racial violence. NOTE: we plan to have individual podcasts in the future on specific events like Rosewood, this is a general narrative.
“Gone with the Wind”: The academic history behind the racist “Lost Cause” narrative
Editors Note: In light of recent events we are re-running this article which first appeared in February. President Trump’s citation of “Gone with the Wind” as an American film worthy of commendation while ripping a film by a Korean-producer could not have been an accident – it has to have been a carefully-scripted dog whistle […]
David Frum’s brilliant “Trumpocalypse” an essential 2020 read
If I had one wish this election year it would be to provide every American with <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://<a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062978411/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0062978411&linkCode=as2&tag=theflosqu-20&linkId=c0223d21e3c17b8db12ce42c99cb86ca">Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy</a>a copy of David Frum’s, Trumpocalypse. In this work, Frum, arguably the most intellectually-gifted conservative writer of the last 30 years lays out the case for why Donald Trump is not […]
The Condo Commandos of south Florida – political difference makers
In this week’s edition of The Florida History Podcast we talk about the “Condo Commandos”, some of the most influential figures in Florida politics from the late 1970’s until the early 2000’s. 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 […]
#Blacklivesmatter: LBJ and MLK Jr., Civil Rights passage, reading and viewing
With civil disobedience and protests at an apex the last week after the murder of George Floyd and the killing is several other African-Americans, it is important to think about a time when a southern President who prior to 1957, had opposed Civil; Rights effectively partnered with Martin Luther King Jr. The amount of scholarship […]
The Florida Squeeze 