A look at the Santa Fe River as it flows through O’Leno State Park.
Excerpt from The American Conquest of Florida In terms of Florida, Jeffersonian’s saw the area as a perfect place to expand the plantation slave-based economy and eventually bring into the union as a slave state. Spain’s desperation to repopulate the colony led to incentives to new settlers from the American south. This also meant Spain […]
Dr. Angela Zombek of UNC-Wilmington joins us to discuss the history of a unique place that sits at the mouth of Tampa Bay – Egmont Key. 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 […]
Fort Myers came of age during the Third Seminole War (1855-1858), the often forgotten about conflict that capped almost fifty years of war in Florida.
Some people have asked me why I am not dancing all over Governor DeSantis grave on social media like other Florida progressives/liberals. The reason is while Nikki Haley is still in race at this moment, she won’t be much longer (funny how the so-called “establishment” candidate has so few endorsements while elected officials in the […]
On this past week’s Florida History Podcast we discussed Miami’s Fort Brickell and its role in the Spanish-American War of 1898 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 […]
Buy your copy here! Introduction to the book: In 2023, Ridley Scott directed a film about Napoleon that was a box-office sensation. The resulting revival in the interest in the Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon corresponds nicely with the issuing of this third and final volume of the Albion Florida series. This is […]
As most of you have no doubt read a judge earlier this week blocked the JetBlue-Spirit merger from moving forward. The suit filed by the Department of Justice was on antitrust grounds. From my vantage point, having seen the Obama Justice Department not oppose the Southwest-AirTran merger and then seeing air fares rise as a […]
The Florida Squeeze 