Florida History

This is citrus harvesting season in Florida, where oranges make up the largest part of an industry that contributes $8 billion a year to the state…

The house where rockers Ronnie, Donnie and Johnny Van Zant grew up is officially one of Florida's historic sites.A marker noting the home as a Florida…

FLORIDA SNAPSHOTS - A WLRN Original Production - Short stories that capture Florida's unique and colorful past.

Overnight Tuesday, a surging ocean pushed ashore a remarkably well-preserved, 48-foot section of the wooden hull of a sailing ship that could date back...

J. Michael Francis spent nearly a decade combing through thousands of scribbled notes, ship logs and dusty relics to chronicle Florida’s Spanish past. He…

If you love maps, there's a new display at the Tampa Bay History Center that you're going to want to check out.The museum is working with the University…

Thanks in part to work by WUSF TV, more than 70 public TV stations around the country will air an award-winning documentary that looks back at a 1950s and…

UPDATED 3:30 PM 11/12/15 - Updated with interview with USF St. Petersburg Special Collections Librarian Jim Schnur Fifty years ago, a state investigative…

UPDATE 9 a.m. 1/27: Andy Huse will give an encore presentation of "Tampa's Rebels and Revolutionaries: Looking Beyond the Pirates and Gangsters" Tuesday,…

In the 1950's, a group of African-Americans painted elaborate Florida natural landscapes they sold as an alternative to working in the fields.Local…