
360: French La Caroline and Spanish reclaiming La Florida
The French settlement of La Caroline posses a threat to Spanish hegemony.

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A weekly look at a different fascintating topic in Florida History Cover art photo by Derek Reese. @DR928
Unknown Host hosts The Florida History Podcast, a society show with 383 episodes published.

The French settlement of La Caroline posses a threat to Spanish hegemony.

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We speak this week with Eric Romo, an Architectural Historian who has produced an incredible short film on some of the key historic sites of Old Florida.

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We discuss the history of the Voting Rights Act in Florida - what Florida was like for African-American voting rights before 1965 and all the incremental progress and eventual decline since the initial passage in 1965.

We finish up our extensive look at cancelled expressways in the state with a look at the panhandle.

We discuss cancelled expressways outside large urban areas and in fast growing sprawlish counties in the peninsula.

The University of South Florida was almost turned into an expressway-driven concrete jungle. Students and the USF community fought back. But those were just a few of the roads that planners envisioned in the Tampa Bay ar

We continue our look at neighborhood activism and college rebellions against concrete highways by discussing several cancelled road projects in the Orlando area during the 1980's and early 1990's.

The Sawgrass Expressway exists today but it's merely a fragment of what was originally planned. This is a story of condo commando power, FAU student activism, knocking on from the University of Miami-related activism we

Ever wonder why power lines are in certain places in south Florida. Easy answer...the surface road the run along was meant to be an expressway. Why did all these super highways never get built? Community opposition and a

The 50-year struggle (ongoing) to protect the spring and horse country against expressway building in North Central Florida is discussed this week.

We discuss the sprawl created by the extension of I-75 beyond Hillsborough County. The road created major sprawl in Southwest Florida leading to the rapid development of gated and exclusive communities in the area that h

We discuss I-10's avoidance of the southside of Tallahassee as an early and rare win for black political power in Florida during the 1950's, 60's and early 70's. We also talk about how the move of I-10 north has in time

We discuss the ripping apart of urban neighborhoods in Central Florida by I-4, I-275, I-175, and SR 408.

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We discuss the destruction of several historically important black neighborhoods in Jacksonville due to the building of I-10 and I-95.
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