Manuel Roig-Franzia is a Washington Post staff writer and the newspaper’s former Miami bureau chief. On the causeway that stretches from downtown Miami to the beach, there’s a little sign that diverts ...

Florida Time is partial to colorful historical characters. Such as the Binder Boys. Here’s more from our column in April 2019, as well as a 1986 essay in the Florida Historical Quarterly by Paul ...

The 1920 Ocoee Massacre, also known as the deadliest election day in United States history. The under-told story about when an African-American community was attacked for using their right to vote in ...

In the midst of a historic midterm election, Central Floridians left voting stickers on the grave of Julius “July” Perry, an African American man who was shot and lynched by a white mob in Orlando ...

Who doesn’t love a grand old hotel brought back to life? Such is the Hotel Floridan, a product of the 1920s Florida real estate boom. When postwar tourists turned away from Tampa’s downtown hotels, it ...

Recently acquired documents from T.T. Wentworth Jr.'s personal files that revealed he was a leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Escambia County in 1920s may also unearth previously unknown episodes of the ...