Fort Pickens played a huge role in the beginning of the Civil War (War Between the States). The fort which has similar style in its original conception to Fort Taylor in the Keys eventually gained new layers and batteries which are not included in this video.
On this week’s Florida History Podcast, we begin our series on Walt Disney World and Central Florida with Walt Disney’s quest to build a second amusement park site – how locations such as Palm Beach County, St Louis and New York were strongly considered before settling on Central Florida. You can listen to the Florida […]
Florida History Podcast :Florida’s first statewide African-American official, Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs. Johnathan Clarkson Gibbs served as the first black statewide official . The above linked podcast from 2021 discusses his career and legacy.
As reported earlier in the week in Coral Springs Talk the City of Coral Springs is moving forward with its play to create a “destination” in the city around the Everglades. This is from the City’s Annual Report: “To take advantage of the Everglades, the city plans to research options and develop a long-rangestrategy to […]
“Even a president as down to earth as Harry Truman sometimes wondered if the White House was haunted. Is it? In Lincoln’s Ghost, Robert Buccellato goes searching for the answer. Along the way he brings to life the many strange, weird, and paranormal things our commanders in chief and their families have encountered. Combining rigorous […]
The book features accounts of many historical figures on the Native American, Free African-American, US, Spanish and British sides. During the course of the work I will offer opinions on many of these figures. However, one person looms largest over this entire narrative – Andrew Jackson. In my own lifetime (I turn 50 later this […]
We look at the progression toward hostilities and an American annexation of West Florida in this video.
Atlantic Ridge Preserve State Park is in Martin County and is generally accessible only by foot.
The recent discussion of Confederate Monuments in the legislature brought me back to thinking about how embedded this culture is within Florida. And how for many years it was aided by intellectual elites in the north who pushed a “lost cause” narrative as a means of “national reconciliation.” In fact, many of these themes go […]
The Florida Squeeze 