Historical Society of Palm Beach County video on the Seminole Wars

A video we made to accompany our podcast on Abiaka

Royal Palm Beach Pines are tucked within a residential neighborhood but prove a very rewarding natural area to visit.

A quick look at Kartik Krishnaiyer’s new book https://amzn.to/3C98DV5

With President Trump gung-ho on conquering new territory for a revived vision of manifest destiny we remember when the US looked to conquer Florida. The following excerpt is from my new book on the War of 1812 and its connections to Florida.  The goal when negotiating the Louisiana Purchase had been to get New Orleans […]

On a recent Florida History Podcast we discussed Reubin Askew’s huge win the 1970 Gubernatorial Election- a result that ushered in a decade of progressive domination in a previously conservative state. 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 […]

Donald Trump will return to the Presidency at noon tomorrow. Trump who is always impressionable since he lacks an ideology and is always seemingly in need of money has fallen into a cabal led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy that seeks to continue undermining this country’s labor market by importing “skilled workers” while throwing […]

Bivens Arm Natural Area gives views of part of Bivens Arm in Gainesville

On this anniversary of MLK’s birthday coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the Federal Voting Rights Act, 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 developed along with screenplays/movies about this period […]

 In commemoration of Martin Luther King Birthday in 2025 , it is timely to recall the critical role Florida played in the passage of Civil Rights legislation- specifically St Augustine which the epicenter of MLK Jr. and Southern Christian Leadership Council (SLC) activity during the Senate filibuster of the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964. […]