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Special Collections and University Archives
Month: February 2009
UNCG Honors Children’s Book Writer … With Jazz!
Press Release by Michelle Hines2-26-09 Carole Boston Weatherford writes about jazz. Her recent books for kids include “Becoming Billie Holiday” and “Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane.” Now Boston Weatherford, a University of North Carolina at Greensboro alumna who has given her papers to UNCG’s Jackson Library, is being honored […]
Kay Hagan Gives N.C. Senate Papers to UNCG
By Dan Nonte, University Relations Posted 2-16-09 GREENSBORO, NC — U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan has donated the papers from the decade she spent in the North Carolina Senate to UNCG. The Greensboro Democrat was elected to the state Senate in 1998 and served as co-chair of the powerful Appropriations Committee for four years starting in […]
Life Magazine Images of Women in the Military
LIFE Magazine has added many of their photographs to the Google Images database. You can enjoy (and copy for your own personal non-commercial use.) There are some REALLY great high-resolution images and hours of time-wasting fun. LIFE Photo Archive Hosted By Google If you do a search for “WACS”, “WAVES”, “SPARS”, “Female Marine”, “American Red […]
New WWI American Red Cross/Army Nurse Uniform
This World War I American Red Cross/U.S. Army Nurse’s Outdoor Uniform is a new addition to the Women Veterans Historical Collection. We are pretty excited about it because these uniforms are very rare. During World War I, The American Red Cross supplied military service branches like the U.S. Army and Navy with extra nurses during […]
