On Thursday, October 16th at 6 p.m, Dr. Paul Ortiz will give a lecture titled, “Preparing for the Civil Rights Movement in Florida” and sign copies of the new edition of “Remembering Jim Crow.” This event is preparatory to the Tallahassee Museum of Florida History’s unveiling of its forthcoming exhibit on the civil rights movement […]
On Thursday, September 25th at 7:00 p.m., the Civic Media Center will dedicate its Labor Library in memory of Bob and Gay Zieger. The Ziegers influenced countless students and community members through their work at both Santa Fe College and the University of Florida. Because of their support for the Civic Media Center and the Labor […]
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On Saturday, October 25, the United Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organization – Transatlantic Slave Trade, with the University of Florida and SPOHP, present an oral history symposium, “From Slavery to Civil Rights: Stories of Heroes.” The event will take place 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. in Pugh Hall MacKay Auditorium at the University of Florida, […]
Oral histories from SPOHP’s Panama Canal Collection will be featured, and residents from Silver City will be interviewed on August 15 for the archive.
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Join the Matheson Museum on Wednesday, August 13, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. with Dr. Paul Ortiz, Dr. Matt Gallman, and Dr. Patricia Hilliard-Nunn, tracing the history of Alachua County’s African American families from the Civil War to the present-day. The symposium will examine the challenges and triumphs of Alachua County residents after the Civil War. Dr. Paul Ortiz […]
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Gainesville Veterans for Peace will be displaying 6,781 tombstones from 7 a.m. on May 24 through dusk on Memorial Day, May 26, 7 p.m. to remember those who have died in the wars in Afghanistan since 2001 and in Iraq since 2003.Memorial Mile will line the street along Eighth Avenue just east of 34th Street, […]
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On April 26, the Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures, “La Casita,” will open its doors to graduating seniors who can participate in a t-shirt project. Students will decorate t-shirts in order to capture the labor of their UF journey and pay tribute to the work their families did to help them graduate from college. The event […]
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The History Honors Conference and awards luncheon will take place this Saturday in Pugh Hall. The schedule is available online from the History Department 7 panels will run from 9:00 to 12:15 and from 1:45 to 4:45. Social, Intellectual, & Religious Currents in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Warfare, Politics, and Religion in the Ancient […]
The panel presentations of the 9 history majors who traveled to Cuba over spring break for a course on slavery and the legacies of slavery will be held on Tuesday, April 8! The panel is titled: “Seeing is Believing: Studying Cuba in Cuba, a UF Student Perspective.” Students will present images and a mini-film […]
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On Thursday, March 27 at 5:30 p.m., the Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere will present a lecture with Professor Kathleen Blee of the University of Pittsburgh, “Studying Racist Activists: What Can Be Learned and What Cannot” at 5:30 p.m. in the Ustler Hall Atrium. Is there anything to be gained by talking to […]
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