• 2019 NEH Summer Institute, The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa: “José Martí and the Nature of Cuban Independence” with John Tone 

  Tone, John (The University of Tampa, 2019-07-02)

  Cubans and Spaniards fought a particularly brutal war from 1895 to 1898 that left 45,288 dead Spanish soldiers and as many as 170,000 Cuban dead, the vast majority of them civilians. Disease produced almost all of the ...
• 2019 NEH Summer Institute, The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa: “José Martí in Tampa: 20 Documented Visits” with Emiliano J. Salcines 

  Salcines, Hon. Emiliano J. (The University of Tampa, 2019-06-24)

  The Honorable Emiliano J. Salcines, retired federal judge of the District Court of Appeals and highly-respected local historian, is responsible for meticulously documenting all the known visits by José Martí to Ybor City ...
• 2019 NEH Summer Institute, The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa: “Key West’s Revolutionary Community, 1868-1898” with Gerald E. Poyo 

  Poyo, Gerald E. (The University of Tampa, 2019-06-20)

  Almost from the moment of the outbreak of Cuba’s Ten Years War on October 10, 1868, Cubans began arriving in Key West to escape Spanish persecution. Within a year, an activist exile community formed that for thirty years ...
• 2019 NEH Summer Institute, The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa: “José Martí, New Yorker” with Lisandro Pérez 

  Pérez, Lisandro (The University of Tampa, 2019-06-21)

  José Martí lived most of his adult life in New York. This presentation places Martí in his New York milieu and identifies the ways in which the city influenced his life and work. From democratic culture, corruption, ...
• 2019 NEH Summer Institute, The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa: “Ybor City Lives: Wars, Revolutions, Great Depression, Great Society, Urban Renewal, and Americanization” with Gary Mormino 

  Mormino, Gary (The University of Tampa, 2019-07-09)

  For more than four decades, my life has been intimately involved and intertwined with Ybor City. The enclave remains the most interesting place I have ever encountered. Upon arriving in 1977, I began interviewing elderly ...

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