ICYMI: City Within a City, a screening and discussion
For City of Tampa’s Archives Awareness Week 2021, the USF Libraries Tampa Special Collections and the Tampa Bay History Center (TBHC) screened City Within a City, the 1955 promotional film about Ybor City — created by Paul Rubenstein, Cesar Gonzmart, and the …Continue Reading
City Within a City: Screening and Discussion
Thursday, July 15th6:00 p.m.Virtual on Microsoft Teams
USF Libraries Tampa Special Collections & Tampa Bay History Center are celebrating City of Tampa’s Archives Awareness Week! Join us Thursday, July 15th from 6 – 7 p.m. for a special live virtual screening of the 1955 promotional film about Ybor City, …Continue Reading
2021 Books Save Lives
Thursday, February 4, 20212 p.m.Virtual (hosted through Microsoft Teams)
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
Florida Conversations: A Behind the Scenes Look at Chinsegut Hill
Wednesday, April 21, 20216:30PMTampa Bay History Center (presented online)
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
Florida Conversations: How We Remember Woman Suffrage
Wednesday, March 17, 20216:30PMTampa Bay History Center (presented online)
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
Florida Conversations: Jackson House Update
Wednesday, February 17, 20216:30PMTampa Bay History Center (presented online)
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
Florida Conversations: Tampa: Impressions of an Emigrant
Wednesday, January 20, 20216:30PMTampa Bay History Center (presented online)
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
