History

As February marks Black History Month in the U.S. we’ll take a closer look at the history of the civil rights in the sunshine state from the…

Best-selling international investigative author Edwin Black comes to Southwest Florida for a series of speaking events Feb. 21-24 including the inaugural…

Stories about Florida’s black cowboys may be hard to find in a textbook. However, a new traveling exhibit could help students learn about the little-kno...

Many Americans watched in shock as the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated over the Florida sky 30 years ago. U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, D-FL, was one...

Florida may pay to rebury students whose remains were once interred on the grounds of a now shuttered reform school.

The Dozier School for Boys in the Florida Panhandle town of Marianna closed in 2011, after allegations by former inmates of decades of torture and...

University of South Florida researchers next week will present a final report to Gov. Rick Scott and the state Cabinet about work at the shuttered Arthu...

Former Chief Justice Leander Shaw, who died last week at age 85, lay in state Monday in the rotunda of the Florida Supreme Court as family, friends and...

Scientists across Florida are up in arms about a Republican plan to let people keep historic artifacts they excavate from state-owned land. Under the...

It feels like a high-speed chase west on the ironically named Dolphin Expressway, veering south on what follows as a seamless string of highway on the ...