Playlist: Florida Humanities Podcasts

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Florida Podcasts
A group of Florida performers and fans trying to keep the blues alive in a panhandle community.
mp3 | 05:40
Florida Podcasts
A new book seeks to answer a historic question: who was the real author of the iconic Florida song "Orange Blossom Special."
mp3 | 7:00
Florida Podcasts
A new book looks at a sampling of the leading newspaper journalists of Florida
mp3 | 6:45
Florida Podcasts
A look at some "outsider" artists and how their work is gaining popularity, even as it becomes a sought-after commodity in upscale galleries nationwide.
mp3 | 5:04
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 | 0:48
Florida Podcasts
Archaeologists have found a host of interesting artifacts from many different historic and prehistoric periods on and around this southwest Florida community. Now artists have been commissioned to create community interest by creating images of people and places from the island's past.
mp3 | 5:04
Florida Podcasts
A play based on the parallel but contrasted experiences of two teenagers separated by the experience of Jim Crow.
mp3 | 6:18
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 | 0:28
Florida Podcasts
The author of "A Land Remembered" shares some of his feelings about his adopted home.
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Florida Podcasts
An educator takes to the streets of Miami to guide visitors and students toward an appreciation of "real Florida," urban style.
mp3 | 5:31
Florida Podcasts
A Florida philosopher looks at the historical thought patterns and values behind the way we perceive the natural world
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Florida Podcasts
The owners of a small publishing company brave the ups and downs of an uncertain business in their commitment to bring attention to Florida's culture and issues.
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Florida Podcasts
Is humanity facing a new set of modern diseases like the medieval Black Plague? One scholar's book paints an ominous picture.
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Florida Podcasts
Florida's natural environment and wildlife has long been plundered for a quick profit.
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Florida Podcasts
A Miami poet reflects on his Florida experience - the history of the state, its landscape and its issues.
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Florida Podcasts
Interview with a Tallahassee poet who writes in a free-flowing narrative style.
mp3 | 5:04
Florida Podcasts
A Florida poet talks about how growing up in the state has informed her book of short stories featuring women and their issues.
mp3 | 5:03
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 | 0:36
Florida Podcasts
A group of Gainesville architects want to reacquaint members of a historically black community with their own architectural heritage
mp3 | 5:44
Florida Podcasts
How can ranchlands, some of the last privately-owned undeveloped lands in Florida, be preserved for their cultural and environmental importance?
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Florida Podcasts
Actors speak the words of everyday Floridians in a play exploring their connection with a special piece of land.
mp3 | 5:03
Florida Podcasts
Historians tell the story of the rise and fall of the only railroad ever to span the Florida Keys, built by a persevering railroad magnate against all odds.
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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 | 0:42
Florida Podcasts
The story of a South Florida environmental pioneer and his unique home...
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Florida Podcasts
Florida's watery coastal regions are characters in one novelist's crime/mystery books.
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Florida Podcasts
A geologist talks about what man has done to the Kissimmee River, and how its history reflects our changing attitudes toward the natural world.
mp3 | 6:19
Florida Podcasts
A panel of experts discuss how to best deal the cultures of fundamentalism and ultra-conservatism in our society.
mp3 | 5:52
Florida Podcasts
A journalist who came to the US on the Mariel Boatlift tells her story in a new book about the experience.
mp3 | 5:23
Florida Podcasts
A Cuban poet talks about how the exile experience has shaped his work
mp3 | 06:24
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 | 1:22
Florida Podcasts
Although poet Robert Frost never referenced Florida in any of his work, he spent 29 winters in the state.
mp3 | 5:50
Florida Podcasts
The views of an outspoken commentator on America's educational system. Robert Sherman offers a vision for the 21st century based on some basic truths.
mp3 | 06:29
Florida Podcasts
A southwest Florida man recreates some of the ways in which early Floridians created their world to discover how they lived and worked.
mp3 | 06:45
Florida Podcasts
Can the "good society" exist in a society where gender differences abound? The former editor of Ms Magazine talks about what needs to happen first.
mp3 | 05:02
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 | 0:58
Florida Podcasts
The story of Ruskin, one of Florida's experimental Utopian communities, as told by a descendant of the founder.
mp3 | 07:35
Florida Podcasts
Creating a virtual museum to share the history and cultural artifacts that spotlight the rich heritage of one North Florida county.
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Florida Podcasts
An academic endeavors to spread the truth about a controversial religion that has attracted many adherents in South Florida.
mp3 | 07:07
Florida Podcasts
The struggles to save the historic buildings of Miami's "deco district" are detailed in a new book written by one of the activists.
mp3 | 5:35
Florida Podcasts
America's iconic novelist and his wife stay at the Don Cesar hotel on St. Petersburg Beach, one of a number of visits to the Sunshine State.
mp3 | 5:02
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 | 0:36
Florida Podcasts
Interviews with members of a group wanting to bring awareness and civic pride to a historic African American community, now part of the city of Gainesville.
mp3 | 06:13
Florida Podcasts
How have 20th century changes in lifestyle impacted the women of the Seminole Indian tribe.
mp3 | 06:39
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 | 0:34
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 | 1:01
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 | 0:48
Florida Podcasts
An unassuming building that played an important role in the frontier history of Southwest Florida's 10,000 islands region.
mp3 | 5:05
Florida Podcasts
The author of a book on the civil rights struggles in Miami talks with some of the people who helped black Floridians in the pursuit of equallity.
mp3 | 5:58
Florida Podcasts
A scholar discusses how music made by sharecroppers and former slaves has served as inspiration for an entire culture.
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Florida Podcasts
A panel of southern journalists discuss the bad old days of southern news media
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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.
mp3 | 5:03

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.
mp3 | 06:25

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.
mp4 | 1:04

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.
mp3 | 06:58

The first years of the US space program in Florida, as told by a filmmaker who is the daughter of an aerospace engineer.
mp3 | 08:26

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.
mp3 | 5:44

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.
mp3 | 5:58

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.
mp3 | 06:42

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.
mp3 | 5:04

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.
mp3 | 06:47

Profile of a pioneering Miami crime/mystery writer with an environmental mission.
mp3 | 5:03

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.
mp3 | 7:05

An award-winning photographer who specializes in capturing images unique to Florida.
mp3 | 5:57

"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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