The Florida History Podcast

To celebrate America 250 we are going to tell the true stories of what happened in Florida... more

Despite their own huge rivalry Miami and Florida State fans seem to exhibit a sense of sol... more

Neil Blackmon joins us again to discuss the historic rivalry between Florida and Miami whi... more

We continue our miniseries on Florida's college football history with a look at Bobby ... more

We begin a short series on the history of College Football in the state discussing the ear... more

Kartik Krishnaiyer explains why he believes Fort Caroline represents the actual origin sto... more

What did the French colonists find in the way of plants in the northwest corner of the Flo... more

In the finale of our miniseries of the French in Colonial Florida we discuss the 1719 capt... more

French privateer Dominique de Gourgues works with the Timucuan to exact a measure of reven... more

We read from Laudonnière 's memoires of his voyages how exactly he escaped Fort Caroli... more

The Spanish effort to retake Florida ends in success- Jean Ribault and his men are slaught... more

Summer 1565 led Laudonnière's Fort Caroline colony to interact with help British trave... more

Rene Laudonnière establishes Fort Caroline at the mouth of the St Johns River. The colony ... more

The first French settlement in what was then Florida but is now South Carolina took place ... more

We discuss the religious strife that dominated 16th Century Europe as well as France's... more

We're going to do a few episodes on colonial interactions between France and Florida c... more

Kartik Krishnaiyer describes his new book on the Canada-USA relationship and gives an upda... more

We discuss the British leaving East Florida between 1784 and 1785 and how the British kept... more

We discuss the peace treaties between Britain and Spain on one hand and Britain and the US... more

The Spanish (with French assistance) complete the conquest of West Florida by sieging and ... more

The last naval battle of the American Revolution took place off the coast of Merritt Islan... more

Led by St Augustine resident Andrew Deveaux Loyalists restore the Bahamas to British rule ... more

We discuss the refugee influx to East Florida and the Shipwrecks involving loyalists fleei... more

After defeat at Yorktown loyalists flee to East Florida, now a fortress British colony wit... more

An episode requested by listeners, before we continue our Revolution narrative next week, ... more

American patriots of note were hauled off from Charleston after the British capture of the... more

Even after American forces were rebuffed again at the Battle of Alligator Creek Bridge, up... more

The Americans are coming! Again! Another attempted invasion of British East Florida is thw... more