History

In June of 2013, Robert Stephens of Tampa received a phone call from his sister. She told him that an uncle they had never met had died at the Dozier...

NASA is offering up wreckage from the Challenger and Columbia for public view after hiding it from the world for decades. A new exhibit at Kennedy Space...

After identifying the remains of another boy, University of South Florida researchers are continuing to look into finding answers for families looking...

The Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park was the center of an outcry in late 2013, when the state held a hearing on a plan to place a Union memorial...

Eldridge Williams grew up picking cotton in Texas. In 1942, he was commissioned as second lieutenant on Miami Beach, and then assigned to the Tuskegee...

We delve into the national conversation over the Confederate Battle Flag. Following last month’s mass shooting at the historically African-American…

It was a monster. First, it hit the Caribbean. And once it touched down in the United States, its victims were mostly African-American. When the waters...

Bruce Atkins was 32 years old, an experienced mariner, and an apprentice harbor pilot in Tampa Bay. It was his last training mission, and he was...

April 16 will mark Holocaust Remembrance Day this year. This day of remembrance, called Yom Hashoah in Hebrew, marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto…

The Marco Island Historical Museum hosts the Smithsonian Institution’s traveling exhibit, “The Way We Worked” April 4 through May 16. Through photographs,…