History Hub

Welcome to the History Hub at the San Diego History Center!

We’ve created the History Hub to keep you up to date on the San Diego History Center and our locations in historic Balboa Park and the Junipero Serra Museum in Presidio Park.

This is the place to find the latest information on our exhibitions, public and educational programming and interactive events.

This is the place where you can find our news releases, TV appearances, newspaper and magazine stories. When we make the News, you’ll find it here!

San Diego’s New Deal Renaissance: An Artist’s Experience

Oct 04, 2023

Few people in the history of the United States embody ideals of the American Dream more than legendary African American San Diego homesteader Nathan Harrison (d. 1920). Harrison was a freed slave originally from Kentucky who lived in a small cabin on Palomar Mountain, located in northeastern San Diego County, from the 1850s to 1920. His is a story with prominent themes of overcoming staggering obstacles, forging something-from-nothing, and evincing gritty perseverance.

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Fashion Redux 2020

Feb 19, 2020

For the 2020 iteration of Fashion Redux the student’s reinterpretations of four garments from the 1970s will be displayed in the History Center’s atrium alongside their archival counterparts. The show will be on view from March 17 – April 17, 2020.

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