Author Lecture: Kevin Kokomoor – La Florida

La Florida: Catholics, Conquistadores, and Other American Origin Stories by Kevin Kokomoor, Ph.D.
The Horry County Museum presents a lecture by Kokomoor, Saturday, January 27 at 1 p.m. La Florida explores a Spanish thread connected to early American history that is unfamiliar or even unknown to most Americans. By focusing on America’s Spanish heritage, this collection of stories challenges how Americans view their past and uncovers the Spanish, not English, influence that drove America’s early history. The book digs into Hispanic and Caribbean history, and how important events in the Spanish colonial world influenced the discovery and colonization of the American Southeast. Learn how Spanish colonialism in Florida sparked the British’s plans for colonization of the continent and influenced some of the most enduring traditions of the larger Southeast.