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 |
Scholars discuss the life and contributions of legendary Cuban revolutionary Jose Marti and his relationship with Florida
mp3 | 08:24
An Cuban actor/scholar portrays the 19th century crusader for Cuban independence.
mp3 | 5:04
The award-winning journalist, author, and playwright talks about his work and his ties to Florida.
mp3 | 06:00
A socially-concious broadcast pioneer seeks to enlighten Central Floridians about civil rights.
mp3 | 5:01
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
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.
mp3 | 6:02
One of the state's most historic sites, the overcrowded cemetery has a long and colorful history.
mp3 | 5:37
A journalist talks about his book on the Florida hurricane of 1928, which, he believes, hasn't received the attention it deserves.
mp3 | 06:00
The struggles of a pioneering female journalist to document the Spanish American War just off Florida's shore.
mp3 | 5:47
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 | 0:46
A Florida history professor writes a crime/mystery novel set in 1920s St. Petersburg.
mp3 | 5:37
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"
mp3 | 6:14
A Miami crime/mystery writer looks further south for a location for his new novel.
mp3 | 6:06
Two historians study the letters of Florida women in the 1930s who seek relief from the depression by writing to Washington politicians.
mp3 | 4:58
Rare letters from two women who came to the turbulent Florida frontier of the 1830s
mp3 | 6:17
Scholars believe that one of the best ways to understand history is to hear the voices of the people who lived it.
mp3 | 5:03
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.
mp3 | 5:04
A Florida poet seeking to reproduce the voices of three women from Florida's past reads excerpts and discusses her work
mp3 | 06:58
Archaeologists are hot on the trail of a historic lost town that was home to a colony of escaped African slaves.
mp3 | 6:00
A nature writer speaks of losing his rural "cracker" home to development.
mp3 | 5:23
Teachers, counselors, and social service workers come together to discuss the images and ideals of "home."
mp3 | 07:05
A portrait of a Key West artist whose work has defined and captured the experience of a generation of islanders.
mp3 | 05:57
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
Remembering the best-selling Florida author who wrote about the land and its people with affection and respect.
mp3 | 05:46
A brief biography of Florida's most famous environmentalist.
mp3 | 06:17
The bohemian community of Coconut Grove was home to the pioneering environmentalist. Now the cottage is in danger from gentrification.
mp3 | 5:02
An actor/scholar portrays the greatest American humorist.
mp3 | 5:03
A Florida actor/scholar portrays the educator who has been called the most powerful black woman of the 20th century.
mp3 | 5:19
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.
mp3 | 06:08
A one-man play dramatizes the captivity of a French Huguenot in the Spanish colonial city of St. Augustine in the 1500s.
mp3 | 5:56
A seasoned national reporter remembers the stressful days in Florida in the midst of the crisis.
mp3 | 6:03
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.
mp3 | 6:17
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
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
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
A book details our long and destructive relationship with Florida's Everglades.
mp3 | 6:15
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.
mp3 | 5:28
Archaeologists uncovering details of the chain of Spanish missions that once spanned northern Florida are revealing new information about our past.
mp3 | 07:14
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.
mp3 | 5:54
Mosquito control has played an integral part in the modern history of Florida.
mp3 | 06:35
Archaeologists working to uncover the story of the Calusa Indians on an island in Southwest Florida.
mp3 | 06:30
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
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.
mp3 | 5:49
A mental health expert discusses the myths and misconceptions in the way Floridians view homelessness.
mp3 | 5:30
A group of historians talk about myths that have persisted in Florida's history.
mp3 | 06:30
A group of activists work to preserve some Florida neighborhoods deemed to be at "the tipping point."
mp3 | 6:06
A play tells how the Net Ban has impacted the state's commercial fishermen.
mp3 | 5:38
Three veteran journalists discuss the rise of media conglomerates and the "bottom line" approach to the news.
mp3 | 06:43
A folk festival exposes some of the traditions and folk arts practiced by members of the rapidly-growing new immigrant communities in Central Florida.
mp3 | 5:50
New urbanist planners go to the hurricane-devastated gulf coast to give residents an alternative to developer-driven sprawl.
mp3 | 5:05

