Seth Bramson - South Florida’s Premiere Historian 01/25 by High Noon in Lake Worth | Blog Talk Radio

Join me at noon this Friday (1/25) for talk with Seth Bramson. Seth Bramson is South Florida’s foremost and premiere historian.  He is America’s single most-published Florida history book author with 16 of his 21 books dealing directly with the villages, towns, cities, counties, people and businesses of the South Florida Gold Coast.    

     He is the Company Historian of the Florida East Coast Railway—one of only two people in the country who bears that title with an American railroad—and his book, “Speedway to Sunshine” is the official history of that famous line.  His collection of FEC Railway and Florida transportation memorabilia is the largest in the world:  it is larger than the State Museum’s collection and larger than the Flagler Museum’s collection.

     A graduate of Cornell University’s famed School of Hotel Administration, he holds Masters degrees from St. Thomas University and Florida International University, both here in Miami.  He is Adjunct Professor of History and Historian in Residence at Barry University and Adjunct Professor of History at FIU, where he teaches all of the University’s south Florida and Florida history courses.  In addition he is Historian in Residence at FIU’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.

     The founder of the Miami Memorabilia Collectors Club, his collection of Miami memorabilia and Floridiana is the largest in private hands in the country. 

     He is now working on his 22nd and 23rd books, one of which will be titled “Jewels in the Sunshine:  The Flagler System Hotels” and the other “Beach is Dynamite!  The History of Miami Beach High.”     

     Additionally he is the author of more than 120 articles on South Florida local and Florida transportation history including five in juried or refereed publications. 

     He has appeared as a featured guest or commentator on Florida history programs on A and E, Discovery Channel, Florida Public Broadcasting, Fox FX The Collectibles Show, History Channel, Learning Channel and Turner South Network as well as all five local Miami television stations.

     Nationally recognized as Florida’s leading transportation historian and the Miami area’s pre-eminent local historian he has been quoted frequently in newspapers and magazines throughout Florida as well as in “The New York Times,” “Chicago Tribune,” “Bloomberg Business Week,” “History,” the History Channel Magazine and “U. S. A. Today.”

     He is a consultant to the transportation, hospitality and health care industries and a sought-after speaker and presenter.