Playlist: Florida Humanities Podcasts

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Florida Podcasts
Scholars discuss the life and contributions of legendary Cuban revolutionary Jose Marti and his relationship with Florida
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Florida Podcasts
An Cuban actor/scholar portrays the 19th century crusader for Cuban independence.
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Florida Podcasts
The award-winning journalist, author, and playwright talks about his work and his ties to Florida.
mp3 | 06:00
Florida Podcasts
A socially-concious broadcast pioneer seeks to enlighten Central Floridians about civil rights.
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Florida Podcasts
Bahamian-born Florida A&M students tell how their traditional folk art and dance is acting as a bridge between Florida and the Caribbean Islands.
mp3 | 5:59
Florida Podcasts
A book explores the many sides of Florida folk art through visits with a host of artists. We hear the voices of some of the people featured in the book.
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One of the state's most historic sites, the overcrowded cemetery has a long and colorful history.
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A journalist talks about his book on the Florida hurricane of 1928, which, he believes, hasn't received the attention it deserves.
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Florida Podcasts
The struggles of a pioneering female journalist to document the Spanish American War just off Florida's shore.
mp3 | 5:47
Florida Podcasts
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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Florida Podcasts
A Florida history professor writes a crime/mystery novel set in 1920s St. Petersburg.
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Florida Podcasts
A retired newspaperman writes a new biography of one of Florida's most famous leaders, a man once called the "spokesman of the new South"
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Florida Podcasts
A Miami crime/mystery writer looks further south for a location for his new novel.
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Florida Podcasts
Two historians study the letters of Florida women in the 1930s who seek relief from the depression by writing to Washington politicians.
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Florida Podcasts
Rare letters from two women who came to the turbulent Florida frontier of the 1830s
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Florida Podcasts
Scholars believe that one of the best ways to understand history is to hear the voices of the people who lived it.
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Florida Podcasts
Two women who came to US from Cuba as children compare notes on how their lives have been shaped by having to straddle two cultures.
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Florida Podcasts
A Florida poet seeking to reproduce the voices of three women from Florida's past reads excerpts and discusses her work
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Florida Podcasts
Archaeologists are hot on the trail of a historic lost town that was home to a colony of escaped African slaves.
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Florida Podcasts
A nature writer speaks of losing his rural "cracker" home to development.
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Florida Podcasts
Teachers, counselors, and social service workers come together to discuss the images and ideals of "home."
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Florida Podcasts
A portrait of a Key West artist whose work has defined and captured the experience of a generation of islanders.
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Florida Podcasts
The first book documenting the life and work of one of Florida's greatest environmental crusaders also details her early struggles to succeed in a male-dominated field.
mp3 | 5:03
Florida Podcasts
Remembering the best-selling Florida author who wrote about the land and its people with affection and respect.
mp3 | 05:46
Florida Podcasts
A brief biography of Florida's most famous environmentalist.
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Florida Podcasts
The bohemian community of Coconut Grove was home to the pioneering environmentalist. Now the cottage is in danger from gentrification.
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Florida Podcasts
An actor/scholar portrays the greatest American humorist.
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Florida Podcasts
A Florida actor/scholar portrays the educator who has been called the most powerful black woman of the 20th century.
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Florida Podcasts
The need for a sense of community for coping with the problems of our urban society is dealt with in a talk by an urban planner who seeks to build bridges between communities and governments.
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A one-man play dramatizes the captivity of a French Huguenot in the Spanish colonial city of St. Augustine in the 1500s.
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Florida Podcasts
A seasoned national reporter remembers the stressful days in Florida in the midst of the crisis.
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Florida Podcasts
Cuban archives of Spanish colonial documents are opened to study after years of sequestration, and what the study of these and other priceless papers has revealed.
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Florida Podcasts
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.
mp4 | 0:25
Florida Podcasts
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.
mp4 | 1:09
Florida Podcasts
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.
mp4 | 0:47
Florida Podcasts
A book details our long and destructive relationship with Florida's Everglades.
mp3 | 6:15
Florida Podcasts
Could Florida be facing large-scale water wars? One journalist believes our failure to conserve the state's water will lead to dire consequences in the years to come.
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Florida Podcasts
Archaeologists uncovering details of the chain of Spanish missions that once spanned northern Florida are revealing new information about our past.
mp3 | 07:14
Florida Podcasts
Once part of a great chain of missions across North Florida, San Luis is today one of the country's leading Spanish colonial interpretive sites.
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Mosquito control has played an integral part in the modern history of Florida.
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Archaeologists working to uncover the story of the Calusa Indians on an island in Southwest Florida.
mp3 | 06:30
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A film scholar reveals the surprising story of how one Florida city come close to becoming the country's movie production center.
mp3 | 06:40
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What has happened to the farmworkers displaced by the buyout of the Florida muck farms around Lake Apopka. A photographer sets out to help them document their lives.
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A mental health expert discusses the myths and misconceptions in the way Floridians view homelessness.
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A group of historians talk about myths that have persisted in Florida's history.
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A group of activists work to preserve some Florida neighborhoods deemed to be at "the tipping point."
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Florida Podcasts
A play tells how the Net Ban has impacted the state's commercial fishermen.
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Florida Podcasts
Three veteran journalists discuss the rise of media conglomerates and the "bottom line" approach to the news.
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Florida Podcasts
A folk festival exposes some of the traditions and folk arts practiced by members of the rapidly-growing new immigrant communities in Central Florida.
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New urbanist planners go to the hurricane-devastated gulf coast to give residents an alternative to developer-driven sprawl.
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Sociologists discuss how we can create better public spaces to replace the town centers and other places where people used to congregate.
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A new book reveals a surprising number of unexplained and hidden species of animals reported lurking in the wilds of Florida.
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Florida may have the oldest body of literature in North America, according to a scholar who has made a lifetime study of the subject.
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A Florida archaeologist makes a case for the peninsula's first inhabitants arriving here not 13.000 but 25,000 years ago.
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A year-long project to study and experience the rivers that have their origin in the great Green Swamp of Central Florida.
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One of the state's foremost songwriters tells the story of how he began to sing about Florida.
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Obsolete before it was even finished, Ft. Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas saw many uses - but no military action - before finally being abandoned as a footnote to history.
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A visit to Florida by award-winning novelist Gale Godwin, who talks about her writing techniques and story ideas.
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A profile of the late singer/songwriter who became one of the leading voices of Florida folk music
mp3 | 6:52

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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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.
mp4 | 0:34


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A theater piece is created from oral histories to celebrate the colorful "everyday people" of South Florida's Glades County
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A retired engineer restores an old cemetery on an island that once was home to a vibrant manufacturing community.
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A cultural discussion of some of Florida's historic graveyards reveals changing values about death and the celebration of death.
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The first years of the US space program in Florida, as told by a filmmaker who is the daughter of an aerospace engineer.
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A game warden wages a lonely battle to preserve Florida's unique wildlife.
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A Florida scholar discusses his book: an analysis of people's changing attitudes toward happiness through history.
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One of a group of African American artists who work has become wildly popular tells his story.
mp3 | 5:04

The author of a 1999 book talks about the life and death of a pioneering civil rights activist whose story is still not widely known.
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How did a chance meeting between two iconic American artists on the island of Cuba affect the careers of each?
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Ernest Hemingway's spirit is alive in Key West.
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America's best-known Miami crime/mystery writer ventures into a new part of Florida for his next novel.
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Collecting African American oral histories from four North Florida counties
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Some Indian Americans talk about their beliefs and how they are making Florida Home.
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In 1867, John and Eliza Webb moved from upstate New York to Florida, homesteading 147 acres on Sarasota Bay. Although the original Webb family home is gone, the home of daughter Lizzie has been renovated and is open to the public.
mp3 | 4:29

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.
mp4 | 0:57

Combining historical documents and the findings of archaeologists to make a more complete picture of the last 500 years.
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A project that seeks to entertain and enlighten riders on Orlando city buses about the history of their town.
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During World War II Florida was home to 10,000 German POWs in 26 camps around the state. The author of a book about the POWs discusses the impact these camps had on the people living nearby..
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A Florida actor/scholar dramatizes the struggles of the homeless in Florida with a compelling one-woman play.
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We learn about the lives of Florida's first people - those who inhabited the peninsula for twelve thousand years before the Spanish came - from the archaeological record as well as some other surprising sources.
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A new program wants to enable doctors and nurses to be able to do their jobs with more compassion and understanding using the humanities to inform their decisions.
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A hurricane historian wants us to be aware of the many destructive storms of the past, so we can be better prepared for future disasters.
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A scholar discusses how a group of historic photographs of Florida's Seminoles Indians provide new insights into changing attitudes about Native Americans and their culture.
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A scholar delves into the documents and records left by the Spanish during their occupation of Florida for new information about the peninsula's indigenous people.
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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 scholar talks about the thoughts and feelings of the men who fashioned our most important national document.
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Scholars discuss one of the most unusual writers ever to make his home in Florida,
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A Florida journalist documents the time spent by the famous writer in Orlando and St. Petersburg.
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A scholar tells the amazing story of a woman whose self-confidence and perseverance helped her fulfill a dream to became a world-class aviator in an field dominated by men.
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The story of Florida's most famous cracker, a 19th century cowman turned entrepreneur who became a pioneer in the state's cattle industry.
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Have things changed for the better since the 1954 Supreme Court ruling on segregation? A historian talks about some of the issues that face society and American schools today.
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Profile of a pioneering Miami crime/mystery writer with an environmental mission.
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An award-winning columnist looks back on some of his most memorable discoveries off the beaten path and out of Florida's cultural mainstream.
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A visit to the Florida home of one of the pioneers of air conditioning.
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A historian and crusader remembers his part in the momentous Supreme Court decision that would have far-reaching effects on American life.
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An award-winning photographer who specializes in capturing images unique to Florida.
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"New Urbanist" ideas that date back nearly a century are discussed in this profile of a pioneering city planner.
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How do the ideals of the "good society" apply to life in Florida? An author offers some cynical observations.
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