Highway YouTube is amazing and all of the content creators are great, but we have one phone to pick with them. Lake City is not a terrible control city! We explain why!
Robert Buccellato discusses two of his recent books published through TFS.
This is an excerpt from my book, Florida and the British, before the American Revolution which has just been re-released with an updated and better formatted second edition. King Charles II of Spain in 1693 issued a proclamation “giving liberty to all” runaway slaves provided they converted to Catholicism. It was effectively the response from Spain […]
Disclosure: This book is published by TFS’ publishing arm. 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 […]
The updated, revised and better organized second edition is now available! Just in time for the holidays! Frankly the first edition was put together hastily and looked more like a long dissertation with binding than a proper book with chapters and pictures but this version fixes that in addition to adding more content. https://amzn.to/3VEF3NG
Southwest Airlines, the US’ largest domestic airline has flown to Orlando since 1996 and has carried the most passengers every single year at the airport since its merger with AirTran in 2013. But now with Southwest getting a makeover thanks in large measure to activist investor Elliot, Orlando is going to look more like a […]
We’re sharing this excerpt from my most recent book, The American Conquest of Florida. The ultimate showdown over the future of Florida would take place on the banks of the Apalachicola River in Florida’s panhandle. The site is in present day Franklin County. John and Thomas Forbes The Forbes brothers were Scottish traders that took control […]
The US, Israel and Turkey have accelerated bombing in Syria since the departure of Bashar Assad. Israel claims it has destroyed Syria’s navy and increased its military footprint in Southern Syria. Israel claims no pretense of soft power. Should the US do the same? To date, it has decided it should. It has struck at […]
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