We discuss the 1565 Matanzas Massacre in the latest Florida History Podcast. 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 you to subscribe and listen on your iPhone if you do not use […]
The American Conquest of Florida It’s not discussed much in relation to the Monroe Doctrine which is hailed as a triumph of American anti-imperialism. But what it was also doing was announcing to the British and the Spanish that our policy on slavery was really not the business of European powers. This was done once […]
Robert Buccellato and I will be launching a new season of The Florida History Podcast later this month. This new season will focus on aspects related to Disney setting up shop in Florida and the Amusement Park culture in Central Florida. More details coming soon.
This is the final book in the Albion Florida series and we cover the period from 1784 to 1825. The Spanish re-assumed control of East Florida in 1784 when the British ceded the colony. West Florida has been under Spanish administration since 1781. The next few decades would be engulfed in tumult with incursions into […]
All month long we’ll feature key black history stories from Florida History here at TFS.
The Northeast Corridor is the Miami-Dade portion of the Coastal Link, which extends from Downtown Miami to the City of Aventura, along the existing Florida East Coast (FEC) railway tracks, approximately 13.5 miles. There it will connect with the Broward County rail system. It will connect with Metromover, Metrorail and TriRail at MiamiCentral station. It […]
We preview why we’re doing the new series on Jeffersonian Florida. So much of Florida’s political, social and economic history for better and worse was molded by Jeffersonian philosophy.
On Saturday this past week, the 1838 Battles of the Loxahatchee were reenacted at Battlefield Park in Jupiter Farms. Here is a photo gallery of the event, and I would encourage all those interested in Florida History to attend a future reenactement at the site which is managed by Palm Beach County.
The Florida Squeeze 