On the morning of Dec. 28, 1835, a single gunshot rang out in the central Florida wilderness. Chief Micanopy fired the initial shot before one hundred eighty Seminole warriors hidden in the shrubs ...

Early in the 19th century, while the rapidly-growing United States expanded into the lower South, white settlers faced what they considered an obstacle. This area was home to the Cherokee, Creek, ...

TAMPA, Fla. — A strategic barrier island at the mouth of Tampa Bay has a darker history of war unseen. Egmont Key was host to what historians call a concentration camp for the Seminole Indians of ...

Sometime during the last week of December 1837, one of history’s bravest, most respected Indigenous leaders arrived on Sullivan’s Island. Though his sojourn here was brief, he became an indelible part ...

One day last week several thousand Floridians and visitors from the North repaired to a park on the shores of Lake Worth, between Palm Beach and West Palm Beach. There they ranged themselves in ...

The Seminoles' black heritage is striking in photographs and archival drawings and in the congressional testimony of Gen. Thomas Sidney Jesup, who suffered grave losses fighting black warriors during ...