Florida Radio Programs

The Florida Humanities Council's June 2008 Radio Programs are now available online:

Four Rivers and a Swamp
Walkable Urbanism
Poet David Kirby
The Longest Canoe

A year's worth of programs are archived on their website if four just isn't enough!

USF Libraries and YouTube

The University of South Florida Libraries Special Collections Department and the Florida Studies Center have several videos available on YouTube, including several oral history podcasts from the 2007 Florida Folk Festival, "Tabaco con Ideologia," "Eye of the Beast" (radical student culture at USF in the 1960s and 1970s), and an interview with Raymond More, owner of La Segunda Bakery in Tampa.

Florida Lecture Series

Each year, the Center for Florida History at Florida Southern College in Lakeland offers the Florida Lecture Series. Coming up on the schedule:

November 15, Stuart McIver discusses Guy Bradley and Death in the Everglades

January 31, Les Standiford presents Henry Flagler's Last Train to Paradise

February 28, David Jackson talks about "Booker T. Washington Comes to Florida"

March 13, John F. Marszalek offers "The Petticoat Affair: Manners and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House"

All lectures are at 7 pm on the Florida Southern campus, in the Hollis Room. Past lectures are also available as podcasts on WUSF's website.