Retired Weeki Wachee mermaids gather to relive some of their experiences from the golden days of one of the state's most unique attractions. mp3 | 5:04 | ||
The story of two flamboyant characters who shaped Florida's landscape and architectural heritage - for better or for worse. mp3 | 06:46 | ||
Remembering a time when moonshining was a way of life for a surprising number of rural Floridians. mp3 | 5:03 | ||
Small communities around Florida seek to revitalize their towns by commissioning large public murals on the sides of town buildings. mp3 | 6:13 | ||
Florida's "state reptile" has had a long and colorful relationship with people, as alligators are inextricably intertwined with our state's culture. mp3 | 6:08 | ||
Celebrating books written by Florida writers, the awards recognize our state's talent. mp3 | 5:04 | ||
Can Florida tourism be restructured to be more resource-based? Two pioneering tourism experts discuss possibilities for Heritage/environmental tourism in the Sunshine State. mp3 | 06:52 | ||
A restored Key West architectural treasure whose story echoes the city's history. mp3 | 5:46 | ||
A University of Florida project to capture and document the stories told by the real people who made Florida's history. mp3 | 06:47 | ||
Scholars study the lives of women charged with the raising and culturing of children in the African American community. mp3 | 06:39 | ||
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. mp3 | 6:13 | ||
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. mp3 | 05:49 | ||
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. mp3 | 5:41 | ||
How the way Floridians view the threat of hurricanes has changed down through history, from private disasters to public media events. mp3 | 5:56 | ||
Quiltmakers talk about their craft at an event held in Zora Neale Hurston's hometown. mp3 | 5:02 | ||
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. mp3 | 06:43 | ||
A group of writers trying to protect the waters and landscape of their part of Florida. mp3 | 6:00 | ||
Two Florida historians author the first definitive history of the three Seminole wars. mp3 | 6:19 | ||
A scholar talks about the rise and fall of the sponging industry in Florida, and spongers talk about their own heritage. mp3 | 5:57 | ||
A well-known Florida writer and activist talks about his lifelong struggles for equality and social justice. mp3 | 6:30 | ||
The frontier family whose lives helped shape and define South Florida. mp3 | 6:35 | ||
Why one North Florida river has had such an attraction for novelists, songwriters, and poets in our state's history mp3 | 06:18 | ||
The Library of Congress mounts an ambitious project to collect and preserve oral histories from thousands of American veterans. mp3 | 6:15 | ||
A new book details the struggles of a young would-be lawyer's fight for justice. mp3 | 6:17 | ||
Two of Florida's top female crime/mystery writers talk about their work mp3 | 05:58 | ||
The story of an unlikely group of immigrants and their attempt to establish a farming colony on Florida's east coast. mp3 | 07:23 | ||
Scholars discuss how Florida has become home to more than a million "home on wheels" mp3 | 6:08 | ||
A Ft. Myers museum documents the famous inventor's time in Florida. mp3 | 05:53 | ||
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. mp3 | 04:56 | ||
Scholars debate the separation of church and state in light of struggles both in the Middle East and here in the US. mp3 | 5:45 | ||
Two scholars imagine what Florida might have been if history had taken a different turn in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. mp3 | 5:35 | ||
The story of the Little White House, the vacation retreat of president Harry Truman, in the 1940s and 50s mp3 | 06:05 | ||
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. mp3 | 5:19 | ||
A dark chapter in Florida history is remembered by Stetson Kennedy. mp3 | 06:57 | ||
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. mp3 | 07:20 | ||
A Florida historian reveals how violence became a way of life in many parts of the state in the years following the Civil War. mp3 | 06:21 | ||
A Cuban exile poet has no problem mixing poetry and politics while enjoying his home in Florida. mp3 | 5:58 | ||
A book collects the stories of those who had grown up along the banks of a river that has been both home and livelihood. mp3 | 5:32 | ||
New Urbanist architects discuss what works in Florida's towns and neighborhoods, and what is sill possible in building our future mp3 | 5:03 | ||
Two experts discuss what this new movement is and what it means for Floridians' quality of life. mp3 | 5:40 | ||
Historians describe unsuccessful early attempts to colonize North America, ending with the founding of St. Augustine. mp3 | 5:05 | ||
The story of an intrepid Florida explorer and pioneering adventurer who documented the wilds of Florida beginning in the 18th century. mp3 | 06:37 | ||
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. mp3 | 5:01 | ||
A group of Florida women discuss their successes and challenges in a profession once reserved for men. mp3 | 06:27 | ||
Some of Florida's pioneering female architects talk about their triumphs and challenges in a field traditionally dominated by men. mp3 | 06:27 | ||
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. mp3 | 06:40 | ||
Thousands of Florida women step in to fill jobs vacated by men sent to war. mp3 | 5:01 | ||
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. mp3 | 5:04 | ||
Airmen, soldiers, and sailors tell of their experiences training in Florida during World War II. mp3 | 4:55 | ||
With its year-round warm weather, Florida becomes home to a host of bases for training airmen during the war. mp3 | 5:01 |
Sociologists discuss how we can create better public spaces to replace the town centers and other places where people used to congregate.
mp3 | 5:05
A new book reveals a surprising number of unexplained and hidden species of animals reported lurking in the wilds of Florida.
mp3 | 5:04
Florida may have the oldest body of literature in North America, according to a scholar who has made a lifetime study of the subject.
mp3 | 5:40
A Florida archaeologist makes a case for the peninsula's first inhabitants arriving here not 13.000 but 25,000 years ago.
mp3 | 5:03
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.
mp3 | 6:01
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.
mp3 | 5:01
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.
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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 theater piece is created from oral histories to celebrate the colorful "everyday people" of South Florida's Glades County
mp3 | 5:01
A retired engineer restores an old cemetery on an island that once was home to a vibrant manufacturing community.
mp3 | 5:01
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.
mp3 | 6:41
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?
mp3 | 6:00
Ernest Hemingway's spirit is alive in Key West.
mp3 | 06:12
America's best-known Miami crime/mystery writer ventures into a new part of Florida for his next novel.
mp3 | 4:58
Collecting African American oral histories from four North Florida counties
mp3 | 5:05
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.
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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.
mp3 | 6:02
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.
mp3 | 06:06
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.
mp3 | 5:57
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.
mp3 | 5:04
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.
mp3 | 5:03
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.
mp3 | 06:02
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.
mp3 | 6:10
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.
mp3 | 05:30
Scholars discuss one of the most unusual writers ever to make his home in Florida,
mp3 | 5:57
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.
mp3 | 5:03
The story of Florida's most famous cracker, a 19th century cowman turned entrepreneur who became a pioneer in the state's cattle industry.
mp3 | 6:15
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.
mp3 | 6:11
A visit to the Florida home of one of the pioneers of air conditioning.
mp3 | 4:52
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.
mp3 | 06:47
How do the ideals of the "good society" apply to life in Florida? An author offers some cynical observations.
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