May 2025 Now
May 15, 2025
San Diego History Center’s monthly newsletter featuring upcoming events, latest exhibit news and more.
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!
April 2025 Now
Apr 07, 2025
San Diego History Center’s monthly newsletter featuring upcoming events, latest exhibit news and more.
On KPBS: Effort underway to restore famous Jessop Clock and give it a new home
Apr 07, 2025
“So many stories, so much history — but now Jim has his sights set on the clock’s future. The family, in coordination with the History Center, is in the process of raising money, to restore the clock and to bring it to a final, fitting place.”
‘A gut punch’: Trump order threatens funding for San Diego museums, libraries and zoo
Apr 06, 2025
The San Diego History Center stands with our colleagues in opposing cuts in federal funding for museum and libraries. In previous years, IMLS funding has helped preserve, reveal and promote the history of the San Diego region.
Trailblazer Lynn Schenk at 80: Former Congresswoman Still Makes Herstory
Mar 27, 2025
In The Times San Diego: In the summer of 1993, Democratic Rep. Lynn Schenk flew home to La Jolla with talking points on her lap. Reading them, she felt the urge to laugh or cry.
Sgt. Roberta “Randy” Tidmore celebrating her 103rd birthday with family and friends at the San Diego History Center
Mar 27, 2025
From building airplane parts in a Rockford, Illinois, plant and joining the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve at the age of 22, to becoming a stewardess for United Airlines and a leader at charitable organizations, Sgt. Roberta “Randy” Tidmore‘s lifetime of accomplishments are what embody a real-life Rosie the Riveter.
In the SDUT: Randy Tidmore, WWII Marine and Rosie the Riveter, ’embodies history’ at 103
Mar 27, 2025
Roberta “Randy” Tidmore was waiting at a bus terminal in Chicago more than 80 years ago on her way back to Rockford, Illinois, when a group of handsome young men in the U.S. Marine Corps walked past.
Learn More about the Jessop Clock in this SDUT Story
Mar 20, 2025
The Jessop family recently committed to donating the clock to the History Center to become the focal point of the center’s plan to renovate and modernize its space inside Casa de Balboa.
March 2025 Now
Mar 08, 2025
San Diego History Center’s monthly newsletter featuring upcoming events, latest exhibit news and more.
Missing Pieces Project to be unveiled at San Diego History Center Wednesday
Feb 27, 2025
The San Diego History Center is set to unveil a new virtual exhibit called “Missing Pieces” Wednesday night, showcasing Black history in San Diego.
