Playlist: Florida Humanities Podcasts

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Florida Podcasts
The 500 year story of Florida's first livestock.
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Two historians look at a Florida tradition and its long and sometimes turbulent relationship with the state's inhabitants.
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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.
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Florida Podcasts
A historian explains how Florida became a preferred destination for major league baseball clubs in the early spring months.
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Some of the people who suffered through the 1964 civil rights struggles in St. Augustine tell their stories.
mp3 | 6:00
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Some important aspects of Florida's African American history that have been overlooked in the Nation's Oldest City.
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The mythology and folklore surrounding the St. Johns River.
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A profile of one of Florida's best-known activists and writers, in his own words.
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Florida's legendary folklorist and activist tells of a series of visits from another legendary character.
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Florida Podcasts
In the 1930s, legendary Florida writer and activist Stetson Kennedy goes on a Key West retreat, observing and participating in the local culture
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Sociologist Steven Tipton in one of a series of talks exploring social behavior in the United States, part of a program titled "The Good Society"
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Does Florida have a distinct culture all its own? One scholar weighs in on the idea that our state's diversity inhibits the formation of any kind of clear image.
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Lifetime residents reminisce about the rise and fall of their small Central Florida "company" town
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The voices of some of the people whose lives are connected with Florida's most famous river.
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Some surprising facts about a historic town on Florida's west coast.
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A South Florida storyteller works to educate the public to the value of stories as an art form that promotes cross-cultural understanding.
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Key West honors a playwright who combined poetry and drama to create a new style of American theater.
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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.
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Florida Podcasts
A book looks at the life of a man whose home designs set the tone for a Central Florida community.
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The story of the great ditch that was to cut the Florida peninsula in half to create depression jobs and, later, political capital.
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In 1957, then Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, a resident of Daytona Beach in the 1940s and 50s, gave much of his extensive collection of Cuban art to "the people of Daytona Beach." An art scholar explains how the collection offers a rich insight into Cuban history and tradition.
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A popular tourist site in downtown Tallahassee houses artifacts telling the story of the African American experience in Florida.
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The authors of a book about South Florida's most powerful Indian tribe talk about their legacy.
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Scholars and circus owners discuss the key role played by the Sunshine State in the history of the circus in the US.
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The story of Jacksonville's civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 60s.
mp3 | 6:02
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Archaeologists work on a computer program to allow Floridians to view priceless artifacts recovered from a site on an island near St. Petersburg.
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A philosopher looks at how a sense of environmental ethics may offer solutions to Florida's environmental problems.
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A scholar tells the story of Florida's primeval swamp preserve and collects oral histories of some of the people whose lives have become entwined with the wilderness area.
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An unseen army of immigrant farmworkers endure marginal living conditions to harvest food for Floridians.
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A film historian details the rise and fall of Jacksonville's budding movie industry of the early 1900s
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In-depth summer seminars for teachers allow them to feel better informed as well as better appreciated for their hard work.
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Two scholars discuss the reasons for the continued migration into Florida throughout history, as well as the problems that have resulted.
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Two scholars discuss the elusive nature of what has become known as the "Florida Dream"
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The beginnings of the country's longest-running state folk festival.
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Folklorists seek out examples of customs, practices, and knowledge - learned the old-fashioned way - from the people.
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A map charting the depth and diversity of Florida's cultural heritage as reflected in its literary riches.
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A ground-breaking project combines the voices and images of a collection of Florida folk and outsider artists for access on a web site.
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The story of the 1928 hurricane that devastated the farming area south of Lake Okeechobee, killing an untold number of migrant farm workers.
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A Florida historian authors the definitive study of the intrepid students and others who risked life and limb for a belief in equality and civil rights.
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A year after its publication, the author of the definitive history of the Freedom Riders talks about the decade-long labor interviewing many of the people involved.
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A group of experts discuss the state of philanthropic giving in Florida, as well as some of the issues around giving.
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A play featuring a conversation between two African American women on their lives growing up in Florida focuses on the civil rights struggles in our state's history.
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Survivors and their liberators tell their personal stories
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A New England science fiction writer visits Key West in the 1920s and invents many of the symbols used a decade later to lure tourists to the island.
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Illicit slave trading on the seas continued long after the United States declared it illegal in 1820. New findings suggest Florida may have played a role in finally ending the practice.
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The story of the oldest building in South Florida: a lighthouse that has survived through the turbulent years of the 19th and into the 20th century.
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On the outskirts of Florida's most populous county, archaeologists uncover the remains of a massive canoe a thousand years old.
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The discovery of the unpublished manuscript of a visionary 19th century archaeologist sheds new light on our understanding of Florida's prehistoric peoples.
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The architect who designed some of Miami's most outrageous hotels and homes talks about his work and the boisterous era that fostered it.
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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
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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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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.
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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.
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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 | 0:57

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.
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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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