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Retired Weeki Wachee mermaids gather to relive some of their experiences from the golden days of one of the state's most unique attractions.
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The Mizners

The story of two flamboyant characters who shaped Florida's landscape and architectural heritage - for better or for worse.
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The Moonshiners

Remembering a time when moonshining was a way of life for a surprising number of rural Floridians.
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The Murals

Small communities around Florida seek to revitalize their towns by commissioning large public murals on the sides of town buildings.
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The Mythic Alligator

Florida's "state reptile" has had a long and colorful relationship with people, as alligators are inextricably intertwined with our state's culture.
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The New Florida Book Awards

Celebrating books written by Florida writers, the awards recognize our state's talent.
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The New Florida Tourism

Can Florida tourism be restructured to be more resource-based? Two pioneering tourism experts discuss possibilities for Heritage/environmental tourism in the Sunshine State.
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The Old Custom House

A restored Key West architectural treasure whose story echoes the city's history.
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The Oral History Project

A University of Florida project to capture and document the stories told by the real people who made Florida's history.
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The Other Mothers

Scholars study the lives of women charged with the raising and culturing of children in the African American community.
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The Other War of 1812

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.
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The Political History Museum

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.
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The Prometheus Project

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.
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The Public Storm

How the way Floridians view the threat of hurricanes has changed down through history, from private disasters to public media events.
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The Quilters of Eatonville

Quiltmakers talk about their craft at an event held in Zora Neale Hurston's hometown.
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The Railroad

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.
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The Red Hills Writers Project

A group of writers trying to protect the waters and landscape of their part of Florida.
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The Seminole Wars

Two Florida historians author the first definitive history of the three Seminole wars.
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The Spongers

A scholar talks about the rise and fall of the sponging industry in Florida, and spongers talk about their own heritage.
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The Stetson Kennedy Story

A well-known Florida writer and activist talks about his lifelong struggles for equality and social justice.
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The Stranahans – Frontier Family

The frontier family whose lives helped shape and define South Florida.
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The Suwannee in Literature

Why one North Florida river has had such an attraction for novelists, songwriters, and poets in our state's history
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The Veterans History Project

The Library of Congress mounts an ambitious project to collect and preserve oral histories from thousands of American veterans.
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The Virgil Hawkins Story

A new book details the struggles of a young would-be lawyer's fight for justice.
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The Women of Florida Noir

Two of Florida's top female crime/mystery writers talk about their work
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The Yamato Colony

The story of an unlikely group of immigrants and their attempt to establish a farming colony on Florida's east coast.
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TheTrailers

Scholars discuss how Florida has become home to more than a million "home on wheels"
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Thomas Edison in Florida

A Ft. Myers museum documents the famous inventor's time in Florida.
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Thomas Kochman

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.
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Thoughts on Religion and Public Policy

Scholars debate the separation of church and state in light of struggles both in the Middle East and here in the US.
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Three Visions of Florida

Two scholars imagine what Florida might have been if history had taken a different turn in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
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Truman in Key West

The story of the Little White House, the vacation retreat of president Harry Truman, in the 1940s and 50s
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Tupelo Honey

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.
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Turpentine camps in Florida

A dark chapter in Florida history is remembered by Stetson Kennedy.
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Vegetables

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.
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Violence in Post Civil War Florida

A Florida historian reveals how violence became a way of life in many parts of the state in the years following the Civil War.
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Virgil Suarez

A Cuban exile poet has no problem mixing poetry and politics while enjoying his home in Florida.
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Voices of the Apalachicola

A book collects the stories of those who had grown up along the banks of a river that has been both home and livelihood.
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Walkable Urbanism

New Urbanist architects discuss what works in Florida's towns and neighborhoods, and what is sill possible in building our future
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What is the New Urbanism?

Two experts discuss what this new movement is and what it means for Floridians' quality of life.
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Why St. Augustine

Historians describe unsuccessful early attempts to colonize North America, ending with the founding of St. Augustine.
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William Bartram

The story of an intrepid Florida explorer and pioneering adventurer who documented the wilds of Florida beginning in the 18th century.
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William Bartram in Florida

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.
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Women Architects in Florida

A group of Florida women discuss their successes and challenges in a profession once reserved for men.
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Women Architects in Florida

Some of Florida's pioneering female architects talk about their triumphs and challenges in a field traditionally dominated by men.
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Women in World War II

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.
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World War II: New Jobs for Florida Women

Thousands of Florida women step in to fill jobs vacated by men sent to war.
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World War II: The Invasion of Florida

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.
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World War II: Training in Paradise

Airmen, soldiers, and sailors tell of their experiences training in Florida during World War II.
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World War II: Wings Over Florida

With its year-round warm weather, Florida becomes home to a host of bases for training airmen during the war.
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	North Florida Blues A group of Florida performers and fans trying to keep the blues alive in a panhandle community. mp3 \| 05:40
	Orange Blossom Boys 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
	Orange Journalism A new book looks at a sampling of the leading newspaper journalists of Florida mp3 \| 6:45
	Outsiders and Visionaries 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
	Overview 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
	Painting the Past on Marco 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
	Parallel Lives – A Dialogue on Race A play based on the parallel but contrasted experiences of two teenagers separated by the experience of Jim Crow. mp3 \| 6:18
	Past 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
	Patrick Smith The author of "A Land Remembered" shares some of his feelings about his adopted home. mp3 \| 06:02
	Paul George: Miami’s Walking Historian An educator takes to the streets of Miami to guide visitors and students toward an appreciation of "real Florida," urban style. mp3 \| 5:31
	Philosophy and the Environment A Florida philosopher looks at the historical thought patterns and values behind the way we perceive the natural world mp3 \| 5:23
	Pineapple Press 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. mp3 \| 06:02
	Plagues and Cultural Choices Is humanity facing a new set of modern diseases like the medieval Black Plague? One scholar's book paints an ominous picture. mp3 \| 6:31
	Plundering Nature Florida's natural environment and wildlife has long been plundered for a quick profit. mp3 \| 6:34
	Poet Campbell McGrath A Miami poet reflects on his Florida experience - the history of the state, its landscape and its issues. mp3 \| 5:01
	Poet David Kirby Interview with a Tallahassee poet who writes in a free-flowing narrative style. mp3 \| 5:04
	Poet Enid Shomer 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
	Present 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
	Preserving Florida’s Pleasant Streets A group of Gainesville architects want to reacquaint members of a historically black community with their own architectural heritage mp3 \| 5:44
	Preserving Florida’s Ranchlands How can ranchlands, some of the last privately-owned undeveloped lands in Florida, be preserved for their cultural and environmental importance? mp3 \| 6:26
	Preserving Florida’s Special Places Actors speak the words of everyday Floridians in a play exploring their connection with a special piece of land. mp3 \| 5:03
	Railroad to Key West 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. mp3 \| 5:27
	Railway 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
	Ralph Middleton Monroe The story of a South Florida environmental pioneer and his unique home... mp3 \| 07:11
	Randy Wayne White Florida's watery coastal regions are characters in one novelist's crime/mystery books. mp3 \| 5:38
	Reclaiming the Kissimmee River 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
	Religion and the Common Good A panel of experts discuss how to best deal the cultures of fundamentalism and ultra-conservatism in our society. mp3 \| 5:52
	Remembering the Boatlift A journalist who came to the US on the Mariel Boatlift tells her story in a new book about the experience. mp3 \| 5:23
	Ricardo Pau-LLosa A Cuban poet talks about how the exile experience has shaped his work mp3 \| 06:24
	River-Rat_Jungle-Cruise 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
	Robert Frost in Florida Although poet Robert Frost never referenced Florida in any of his work, he spent 29 winters in the state. mp3 \| 5:50
	Robert Sherman – Visions in Education 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
	Robin Brown 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
	Robin Morgan 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
	RumRunners 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
	Ruskin The story of Ruskin, one of Florida's experimental Utopian communities, as told by a descendant of the founder. mp3 \| 07:35
	Santa Rosa’s Virtual Museum Creating a virtual museum to share the history and cultural artifacts that spotlight the rich heritage of one North Florida county. mp3 \| 5:03
	Santeria An academic endeavors to spread the truth about a controversial religion that has attracted many adherents in South Florida. mp3 \| 07:07
	Saving South Beach 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
	Scott and Zelda in Florida 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
	ScrapMetal_WWII_Japan 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
	Seminary Street 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
	Seminole Women How have 20th century changes in lifestyle impacted the women of the Seminole Indian tribe. mp3 \| 06:39
	Seminole-Indians_Cultural-Tourism 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
	Shipyards 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
	Shipyards_PostWWII 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
	Smallwood’s Store An unassuming building that played an important role in the frontier history of Southwest Florida's 10,000 islands region. mp3 \| 5:05
	South of the South: Civil Rights in Miami 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
	Southern Culture and the Blues A scholar discusses how music made by sharecroppers and former slaves has served as inspiration for an entire culture. mp3 \| 6:07
	Southern Journalists Remember A panel of southern journalists discuss the bad old days of southern news media mp3 \| 5:01

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