Did you know that Miami is the only major city in the U.S. to be founded by a woman? Julia Tuttle was an American businesswoman who was…

You won’t find this in most Florida history books! Meet Saul Snyder, born Solomon Schneiderman, a Russian Jewish immigrant who became one of the most…

In the heart of Florida’s Bone Valley, where phosphate rock fed the nation’s hunger for fertilizer, a remarkable and little-known labor uprising took place. In…

While Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings may have both shared a deep connection to their beloved Florida, they couldn’t have come from more…

In 1905, a young Japanese entrepreneur named Jo Sakai founded the Yamato Colony near present-day Boca Raton. He had a radical vision: to create a…

Four African-American men accused of raping a white woman in 1949 have been pardoned. In January of 2019, after 72 years, the state clemency board…

Mary McLeod Bethune was born in 1875 in a small log cabin on a rice and cotton farm in South Carolina. She was the 15th…

Before highways and high-rises, Florida was wild cattle country, and Bone Mizell was its most unforgettable cowboy. Born Morgan Bonaparte Mizell in 1863 in Horse…

Annie Jumper Tommie was a respected Seminole matriarch, medicine woman, and leader of the Panther Clan, whose life bridged traditional Seminole culture and the modern…