Playlist: Florida Humanities Podcasts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

With its year-round warm weather, Florida becomes home to a host of bases for training airmen during the war.
mp3 | 5:01