Florida history

More than 120 years ago, the vessel that would be the U.S.S. Tallahassee slid down the waves at a New Jersey shipyard.

Tallahassee marks its 200th anniversary in less than 4 years. Planning for the big celebration is now underway.The Tallahassee Historical Society hosted a…

More than fifty years after her death, a new work by Zora Neale Hurston will hit the presses. Barracoon is her account of the last known survivor of…

For the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, WFSU is looking back on some of the Floridians who served. As a young Marine, Ted Archambault…

In 1923, a white mob stormed the small, prosperous African American community of Rosewood, near Florida’s Gulf Coast. Fueled by racial resentment, the mob…

2016 is a year when bonds across race, gender, and political party are being testing. But it’s also the 100th anniversary of the birth of a Florida…

Wednesday marks the centennial of the birth of Stetson Kennedy, a folklorist, historian and social justice activist. He’s a larger than life figure in…

It’s been a yearlong party in northeast Florida as St. Augustine celebrates its 450th anniversary. The city bills itself as “America’s oldest,” but is…

St. Augustine, Florida may have new competition for the title of oldest city in America. A new discovery out of the University of West Florida suggests…

The first Christmas celebrated in what would become the United States was likely in Tallahassee, according to historians. The Florida House of…