Playlist: Florida Humanities Podcasts

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Florida Podcasts
Retired Weeki Wachee mermaids gather to relive some of their experiences from the golden days of one of the state's most unique attractions.
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The story of two flamboyant characters who shaped Florida's landscape and architectural heritage - for better or for worse.
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Remembering a time when moonshining was a way of life for a surprising number of rural Floridians.
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Small communities around Florida seek to revitalize their towns by commissioning large public murals on the sides of town buildings.
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Florida's "state reptile" has had a long and colorful relationship with people, as alligators are inextricably intertwined with our state's culture.
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Celebrating books written by Florida writers, the awards recognize our state's talent.
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Can Florida tourism be restructured to be more resource-based? Two pioneering tourism experts discuss possibilities for Heritage/environmental tourism in the Sunshine State.
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A restored Key West architectural treasure whose story echoes the city's history.
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A University of Florida project to capture and document the stories told by the real people who made Florida's history.
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Scholars study the lives of women charged with the raising and culturing of children in the African American community.
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While the war of 1812 was being fought between the United States and England the Florida peninsula was the scene of a chaotic undeclared war between Spain and the US.
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Hoping to give visitors a sense of connection to our state government, a Tallahassee museum recreates the Florida capitol's legislative and court chambers of 1902.
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A Central Florida trial of a program designed to help people rise out of poverty and need by giving them tools in the form of courses in the Humanities.
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How the way Floridians view the threat of hurricanes has changed down through history, from private disasters to public media events.
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Quiltmakers talk about their craft at an event held in Zora Neale Hurston's hometown.
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An oral history project seeks to document the lives and challenges faced by African American railroad workers in the first part of the 20th century.
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A group of writers trying to protect the waters and landscape of their part of Florida.
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Two Florida historians author the first definitive history of the three Seminole wars.
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A scholar talks about the rise and fall of the sponging industry in Florida, and spongers talk about their own heritage.
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A well-known Florida writer and activist talks about his lifelong struggles for equality and social justice.
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The frontier family whose lives helped shape and define South Florida.
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Why one North Florida river has had such an attraction for novelists, songwriters, and poets in our state's history
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The Library of Congress mounts an ambitious project to collect and preserve oral histories from thousands of American veterans.
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A new book details the struggles of a young would-be lawyer's fight for justice.
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Two of Florida's top female crime/mystery writers talk about their work
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The story of an unlikely group of immigrants and their attempt to establish a farming colony on Florida's east coast.
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Scholars discuss how Florida has become home to more than a million "home on wheels"
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A Ft. Myers museum documents the famous inventor's time in Florida.
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Seeking the "good society," a linguist reveals how black and white styles of communication can often lead to conflict, and what we can do to work around these differences.
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Scholars debate the separation of church and state in light of struggles both in the Middle East and here in the US.
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Two scholars imagine what Florida might have been if history had taken a different turn in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
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The story of the Little White House, the vacation retreat of president Harry Truman, in the 1940s and 50s
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Sally Watt reports from Wewahitchka, in the Florida Panhandle, on the Lanier family, which has tended bees and gathered Tupelo honey for over 100 years.
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A dark chapter in Florida history is remembered by Stetson Kennedy.
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Have Floridians' culinary habits changed over the last 500 years? A UF professor designs a program to enlighten Floridians about the history surrounding the everyday foods we choose to eat.
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A Florida historian reveals how violence became a way of life in many parts of the state in the years following the Civil War.
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A Cuban exile poet has no problem mixing poetry and politics while enjoying his home in Florida.
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A book collects the stories of those who had grown up along the banks of a river that has been both home and livelihood.
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New Urbanist architects discuss what works in Florida's towns and neighborhoods, and what is sill possible in building our future
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Two experts discuss what this new movement is and what it means for Floridians' quality of life.
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Historians describe unsuccessful early attempts to colonize North America, ending with the founding of St. Augustine.
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The story of an intrepid Florida explorer and pioneering adventurer who documented the wilds of Florida beginning in the 18th century.
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Was 18th century Florida explorer William Bartram a visionary? Two scholars describe his values regarding the natural world as very similar to our own in the 21st century.
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A group of Florida women discuss their successes and challenges in a profession once reserved for men.
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Some of Florida's pioneering female architects talk about their triumphs and challenges in a field traditionally dominated by men.
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Did the experiences of Florida women who worked in the war effort in the 1940s help pave the way for the women's movement twenty years later? Two scholars reveal some little-known facts about Florida's women in wartime.
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Thousands of Florida women step in to fill jobs vacated by men sent to war.
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An eminent Florida historian tells the story of a little-known part of America's World War II history: when merchant ships were sunk and Nazi spies landed on Florida's coastline.
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Airmen, soldiers, and sailors tell of their experiences training in Florida during World War II.
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With its year-round warm weather, Florida becomes home to a host of bases for training airmen during the war.
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Profile of an environmental activist who uses music to entertain and educate the public about Florida's fragile ecology.
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A Florida supreme Court justice goes beyond his judicial duties to reach out to educate the public about the workings of our third branch of government.
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An artist learns to appreciate the subtle beauty of the Florida scrub landscape and its unique plants and animals.
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A prize-winning historian discusses her biographical novel - a new take on the presidency of Abraham Lincoln.
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The words of a Florida poet who wants to enlighten the public about the culture and traditions of the state's cattle industry.
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Profiling the life journey of a modern Haitian artist now living in Florida.
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Florida's African Americans struggle to bring democracy to their state during the white backlash to post civil war reconstruction.
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Members of Florida government, business and activist groups act out roles similar to real life, and wrestling with ethics and the Florida environment.
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A look at the 60 years since the creation of the National Park and what has been done to protect Florida's endangered water resources.
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A new book features biographies of 62 Florida "outsider artists."
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The following is a clip from Miami: Reflection in the Water. Reflection in the water was produced by WPBT Channel 2 with funds from the Florida Humanities Council.
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A Florida educator and author takes a humorous, sometimes poignant look at the state's history.
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The author of a book on the social history of modern Florida tells how the state has reinvented itself after the second world war.
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Actor/scholars portray three of the leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance - all of whom grew up in Florida.
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An award-winning travel writer looks at a new trend that offers an alternative to Florida's traditional pattern of growth and development
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A look inside a popular cave in North Florida that is part of state park.
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Commercial net fishing, outlawed in the 1990s, was a way of life many Floridians. A scholar produces a film to document their stories.
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Three experts discuss some of the Florida foods and foodways that are gaining in popularity as well as some that may need to be preserved.
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A new book fits the entire history of Florida into just 70 pages. Its author says the book addresses a need for those from out of state to gain a basic understanding of our rich Florida heritage.
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An immigration expert debunks the most prevalent myths about immigrants, finding that many are perpetuated by self-serving politicians.
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The author of a book about North America before the arrival of the Europeans draws some surprising conclusions about the number of people living in Florida.
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Four scholars look at the many ways Florida has been featured in films - and how these depictions have changed over time.
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A historian discusses the surprising story of the changing face of Florida politics, including the shift from a Democratic to a Republican-controlled state government.
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Florida's unique singer/songwriter tradition as seen by some of its participants, plus a look at the man who started it all.
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An innovative program designed to inspire Florida schoolteachers with a new sense of appreciation and a renewed purpose and connection with their colleagues.
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Three of Florida's top political pundits discuss the state's unique place in national politics.
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A group of experts discuss political trends and their implications for the 2004 presidential election.
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A historian focuses on the struggles of the women that stayed behind when Florida men went to war.
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Scholars and writers discuss their personal takes on Florida's crime/mystery fiction.
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The story of Florida's most famous Prohibition-era outlaws is told by a retired educator who is the foremost authority on the gang.
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Over the last few years some of the most important work in the field of archaeology in Florida has been done by unpaid workers who love finding out more about our state's ancient people.
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Three Florida Book Award medalist poets read some of their poems.
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The author of a book on the subject talks about the people who settled much of Florida in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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The life and times of Sidney J Catts, his turbulent career and colorful personality.
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The authors discuss their book on our state's human and natural history as detailed from an environmental rather than a political viewpoint.
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Beginning in the early 20th century Floridians have been a strong presence in major-league baseball
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Experts discuss the ways diverse ingredients are being combined to make make new and interesting foods.
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Two researchers and a historian tell the story of the St. Joe Company and how it came to control one million acres of Florida's Panhandle, raising questions about land use and regional planning.
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Some preservation-minded experts talk about the many historic graveyards that are being neglected or worse, destroyed for development.
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The story of the Spanish fort that is one of the most popular tourist attraction of St. Augustine, North America's oldest city.
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A well-known journalist generates a list of books every Floridian should have on their shelf.
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The effects on Florida of FDR's New Deal is examined by two historians.
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New Urbanists talk about reducing America's dependence on the automobile, enhancing public spaces, and building mixed-use housing.
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A new program promises to help those with low reading skills with stories about how literature relates to everyday life.
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Two historians shed light on the little-known history of the Spanish privateers that operated off the coast of La Florida.
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Florida's Indians today are better off than ever before, thanks to strong leadership over the last 30 years. But can members of the tribe hold on to their unique culture?
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How the history of one popular natural Florida location reflects the changing story of our state's tourist industry.
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Two historians tell the story of the Kennedy Space Center and the space program's effect on Central Florida.
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The space shuttle revives the flagging space program in Florida with news interest spurred on by the Challenger disaster.
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The man who coined the term "third places" explains why these places are essential for the health of a community, and how the absence of such places affects our society.
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