This is an excerpt from my book Florida and the American Revolution Most of the fortifications that were erected both in Pensacola and St Augustine were built largely by slave labor. While in Pensacola this was not an odd sight, in St Augustine where many free blacks had been armed (unlike on the rest of […]
The following is an excerpt from my new book Lincoln’s Ghost: Our Haunted Presidency. In the darkness of a modest rented single room John Flammang Schrank, a Bavarian-born saloonkeeper was awakened with a terrible fright. Rising high above him was the pale and slowly decaying corpse or spirit of a former President. Trying desperately to […]
The Southern Manifesto (1956) from Florida. According to the official US House of Representatives site: ” Howard Smith of Virginia, chairman of the House Rules Committee, introduced theSouthern Manifesto in a speech on the House Floor. Formally titled the “Declaration of Constitutional Principles,” it was signed by 82 Representatives and 19 Senators—roughly one-fifth of the membership of Congress […]
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Today is Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday! This is the first of several excerpts to be run exclusively on TFS from my forthcoming book which will be published by A Florida Squeeze Publication – Lincoln’s Ghost: Our Haunted Presidency. Harry Truman wrote from the White House, “I sit here in this old house and work on foreign […]
Florida History Podcast- Josiah T. Walls. Republican Josiah T. Walls was Florida’s first African-American Congressman, and a powerful symbol of the Reconstruction era in the state. Walls was born into slavery in Virginia and captured by the Union Army during the Peninsula Campaign. Eventually he was discharged in Florida after the Battle of Olustee and […]
In our first video on Jeffersonian Florida we discuss how American authorities led by President Jefferson were actually more interested in purchasing Florida (and claimed they had purchased it) rather than Louisiana.
Dr Angela Zombek of UNC-Wilmington joined us on a recent Florida History Podcast to discuss an area of expertise that she’s written extensively on – Key West and the Civil War. 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 […]
The Florida Squeeze 