Seminole Wars Authority Podcast
1) SW0159 Fort Foster Volunteers Rip Out Rotten Timber Planks to Restore Replica Post for Public Visits
Twenty volunteers entered the shuttered Fort Foster at Hillsboro River State Park May 6. They ripped out rotten planks from a boardwalk encompassing the inside of the palisade walls confines. This bri...Show More
2) SW0158 Laumer Library Offers 2,500 Sem War Titles & More to Scholars, Students
In our last episode, we reviewed how three years of the Seminole Wars Authority podcast have told the story of Seminole resistance to U.S. Government removal efforts. In this episode, we place the pod...Show More
SW0158 Laumer Library Offers 2,500 Sem War Titles & More to Scholars, Students
25:58 | Apr 30th, 2023
3) SW0157 Podcast Anniversary Highlights Guests’ Breadth, Depth of SemWar Knowledge
This episode marks an anniversary for the podcast: Three full years’ worth of the Seminole Wars Authority. We have done as we said we would do when we set out on this long march. We canvassed far and ...Show More
SW0157 Podcast Anniversary Highlights Guests’ Breadth, Depth of SemWar Knowledge
25:11 | Apr 24th, 2023
4) SW0156 Couple’s Elegant Mules Lead Solemn Prideful Procession to Commemorate SemWar Fallen
In the middle of August each year at St. Francis Barracks in St. Augustine, two elegant mules pull a caisson symbolically carrying the remains of the soldiers who had died in the Second Seminole War. ...Show More
5) SW0155 SemWar Newspapers Printed Congressional Debates, Art (2 of 2)
In our previous episode, Jesse Marshall gave listeners an overview of newspaper coverage of the Seminole Wars, reviewing their accuracy given the physical and technical constraints of the era. In this...Show More
6) SW0154 SemWar Coverage Ebbs and Flows in Era Newspapers (1 of 2)
A popular conceit for a newspaper is that it is the purported “first draft of a history.” Newspapers informed the public. But they also tended to reflect the public’s opinion. And that opinion for wag...Show More
7) SW153 Thespian Recalls Louisa Fatio, St Augustine Proprietor and Survivor of Seminole Wars
In 1812, during the East Florida Patriot War incursion against Spanish territorial rule, 15-year-old Louisa Fatio barely escaped when Seminole attacked and partially burned her family's beautiful New ...Show More
8) SW152 Mail Without Fail: Seminole Agency Post Office Processed Parcels Despite Hostile Climate, Terrain, and Indians
A soldier of the Second Seminole War would have led an austere life at remote Army outposts in Florida. Among the few pleasures in his life might have been playing with a deck or cards or dice and get...Show More
9) SW0151 Navy Vet Personifies Fort Pierce’s Most Worthy Commander
Listeners to this podcast already know that Fort Pierce is a reservation for the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Previously, guest Rollie Gilliam told us about its origins as a home for Black Seminole. In ...Show More
10) SW150 Florida Cracker, Militia Captain Butch Nipper Mixes Heritage with History
The annual Fort Cooper Days battle commemoration returns March 18 and 19 at Fort Cooper State Park in Inverness. This battle featured militia and volunteers fighting off a Seminole attack in the secon...Show More
SW150 Florida Cracker, Militia Captain Butch Nipper Mixes Heritage with History
34:26 | Mar 6th, 2023