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Photo courtesy of Museum of MiamiWhile researching an exhibition about a hurricane that devastated Miami 100 years ago, historian Paul George found himself driving as slowly as he could across the MacArthur Causeway. He was trying to imagine what it looked like on Sept. 18, 1926. A century later, George is revisiting those harrowing hours as co-curator of “Caught in the Eye: Remembering the 1926 Hurricane,” which is on view through April 11, 2027 at the Museum of Miami. -
The decades-long drama to save the Tequesta’s artifacts, and the human remains, from Miami’s rampant high-rise development is the subject of new WLRN original documentary 'Broken Ground' premiering on Wednesday.
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In 1976, a group of elementary school students in Key West left behind pieces of history for their future selves to find. They were tasked with collecting items that represented that moment in time. Fifty years later, the contents of their time capsule have been unearthed. -
With a measuring tape and waterproof notepad in hand, genealogist Shellie Baxter swims around a shipwreck embedded into the ocean’s floor in the Florida Keys. The water is warmer than the San Diego shores she’s used to, but this is still her most challenging dive yet – she is learning how to document slave shipwrecks. -
In 1966, all of Africa's national soccer teams boycotted the World Cup after FIFA refused to give the continent a guaranteed spot in the tournament. -
When hundreds of longshoremen and their families got together this week in Overtown with live music, vendors, and matching shirts, they weren't just celebrating any event — they were commemorating nearly a century of labor that built the "Cruise Capital of the World" in Miami. -
In a conversation with WLRN's Tim Padgett on The South Florida Roundup, educators Dr. Tameka Bradley and Brian Knowles talk about the importance of Juneteenth in the context of an often politicized education system. -
For 60 years, The Villagers, an all-volunteer organization, has helped to preserve historic landmarks in Coral Gables, Coconut Grove and beyond. -
The one-time marquee event for the Moorish-inspired City of Opa-Locka has been on a long hiatus, but the city hopes for a triumphant return this weekend. -
A new history exhibit, “Celebrating Conch Cuisine,” showcases the ways people in the Florida Keys would gather, preserve and prepare different meals and the way these methods have shaped food traditions in the region. -
If the recent Silicon Valley Bank rescue was controversial, the Federal Reserve’s actions to stop a bank run in Havana 97 years ago seem scarcely believable. It is a once-confidential tale of millions of dollars in $5 and $10 bills sent barreling to Key West on Flagler’s Train to Paradise, before crossing the Florida Straits in a tense, liquor-soaked journey on a Cuban gunboat. -
The new exhibit open in Concourse J tells the story of Glenn Curtiss, who founded the cities of Miami Springs, Hialeah and Opa-Locka after advancing air travel.
