- Remembering the Strange, Sordid History of the Florida State Fair
February 13, 2020 - Tampa Bay Times
“It was always a means to bring down the governor or other officials from Tallahassee," said Andy Huse, a librarian with the University of South Florida Special Collections Department. - It's Called Dead Man's Field. Were Bodies Ever Moved from West Tampa Site?
February 5, 2020 - Tampa Bay Times
"Academics have pored over the research Echezabal donated to the University of South Florida’s Library of Special Collections. They agree he might be right because no one has found evidence that large numbers of graves were ever relocated." - Heritage on the Edge: New Google Project Reveals Climate Change Damage to UNESCO Sites
February 5, 2020 - The Art Newspaper
"The raw data sets are also freely available to download for educational and other non-commercial uses from the Open Heritage 3D Alliance database, founded by CyArk with Historic Environment Scotland and the University of South Florida Libraries." - Search For Story of Zion Cemetery Shifts From Graves to Family Records
January 13, 2020 - Tampa Bay Times
These people were intentionally erased,” said University of South Florida genealogist Drew Smith, who leads a five-member team of volunteers. "We want to undo that damage to some degree by making them known again.” Zion was believed to be Tampa’s first all-black burial ground and the final resting place for more than 800 people. It disappeared as buildings were constructed there starting in the late 1920s. - Climate Change Once Flooded Florida – And It Could Again
December 3, 2019 - WJCT Public Media, WUSF News, & WMFE
A map create by the University of South Florida's Libraries and School of Geosciences reveals only parts of the Lake Wales Ridge and the northern extreme of the state bordering Georgia and Alabama as above water during the last extreme event of global warming, about 125,000 years ago.