Playlist: Florida Humanities Podcasts

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Florida Podcasts
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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Florida Podcasts
The story of two flamboyant characters who shaped Florida's landscape and architectural heritage - for better or for worse.
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Florida Podcasts
Remembering a time when moonshining was a way of life for a surprising number of rural Floridians.
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Small communities around Florida seek to revitalize their towns by commissioning large public murals on the sides of town buildings.
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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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Celebrating books written by Florida writers, the awards recognize our state's talent.
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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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Florida Podcasts
A restored Key West architectural treasure whose story echoes the city's history.
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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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Scholars study the lives of women charged with the raising and culturing of children in the African American community.
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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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Florida Podcasts
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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Florida Podcasts
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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Florida Podcasts
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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Florida Podcasts
Quiltmakers talk about their craft at an event held in Zora Neale Hurston's hometown.
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Florida Podcasts
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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A group of writers trying to protect the waters and landscape of their part of Florida.
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Two Florida historians author the first definitive history of the three Seminole wars.
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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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A well-known Florida writer and activist talks about his lifelong struggles for equality and social justice.
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The frontier family whose lives helped shape and define South Florida.
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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 Library of Congress mounts an ambitious project to collect and preserve oral histories from thousands of American veterans.
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Florida Podcasts
A new book details the struggles of a young would-be lawyer's fight for justice.
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Florida Podcasts
Two of Florida's top female crime/mystery writers talk about their work
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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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Scholars discuss how Florida has become home to more than a million "home on wheels"
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A Ft. Myers museum documents the famous inventor's time in Florida.
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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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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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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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Florida Podcasts
The story of the Little White House, the vacation retreat of president Harry Truman, in the 1940s and 50s
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Florida Podcasts
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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Florida Podcasts
A dark chapter in Florida history is remembered by Stetson Kennedy.
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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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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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A Cuban exile poet has no problem mixing poetry and politics while enjoying his home in Florida.
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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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Florida Podcasts
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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Two experts discuss what this new movement is and what it means for Floridians' quality of life.
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Historians describe unsuccessful early attempts to colonize North America, ending with the founding of St. Augustine.
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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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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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A group of Florida women discuss their successes and challenges in a profession once reserved for men.
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Some of Florida's pioneering female architects talk about their triumphs and challenges in a field traditionally dominated by men.
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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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Thousands of Florida women step in to fill jobs vacated by men sent to war.
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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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Airmen, soldiers, and sailors tell of their experiences training in Florida during World War II.
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With its year-round warm weather, Florida becomes home to a host of bases for training airmen during the war.
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The Roosevelt Works Progress Administration created jobs and fostered activity in the arts and letters that have a profound effect on Florida.
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The Roosevelt Works Progress Administration created jobs and fostered activity in the arts and letters that have a profound effect on Florida.
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Can the reviews we depend on for our book choices be trusted? A group of authors talked about the ongoing tension between artists and their critics.
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Three ethnic writers speak of the importance of maintaining their own cultural identity.
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Over half a century later, many in small Florida communities still remember when thousands of German POWs were housed in locations around the state.
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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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Harlem Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston collects music and oral histories in camps where working conditions were some of the harshest.
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The Ft. Pierce house where the famous Florida writer spent her final years is now a historic destination.
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