In residence at the University of South Florida (USF) Tampa Library through March 2024, the Kellogg Mansion Immersive Experience uses cutting edge virtual reality technology to take participants back in time while learning about the history of Dunedin’s Kellogg Mansion and the …Continue Reading
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You are invited to the annual Books Save Lives Award Reception celebrating Janice Lynn Mather, 2021 award winner and author of Learning to Breathe. Thursday, February 4th at 2 p.m. Hosted virtually through Microsoft Teams. Please RSVP to receive login information on …Continue Reading
Chinsegut Hill Historic Site in Hernando County has a human history that spans millennia. Florida Indians, enslaved individuals, wealthy planters, 20th-century crusaders and more labored atop the Hill. The History Center’s Curator of Public History Dr. Brad Massey and Collections Registrar Heather …Continue Reading
Curator Lisa Kathleen Graddy discusses the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History’s “Creating Icons” exhibit and what a 100-year-old collection can tell us about the woman suffrage movement and modern women’s activism. Florida Conversations is free and open to the public, and …Continue Reading
Plans are now underway to transform Tampa’s only remaining African American boarding house, the Jackson House, into a museum and cultural center. History Center curators Dr. Brad Massey and Rodney Kite-Powell, along with historian Fred Hearns, share plans for this historic downtown …Continue Reading
In 1896, Wenceslao Gálvez y Delmonte fled the violence of Cuba’s war for independence and settled in Tampa. The Cuban-born lawyer and writer soon made his new home the focus of a work of “costumbrismo,” a Spanish-language literary genre built on closely …Continue Reading
