On Saturday, November 6th, the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project hosted our 13th annual women veterans luncheon. Our speaker this year was Command Sergeant Major Teresa S. King, the first female commandant of the U.S. Army’s Drill Sergeant School at Fort Jackson, SC. CSM King, a North Carolina native,spoke about her life and […]

WUNC-TV has produced a two-hour documentary North Carolina’s WWII Experience about North Carolinians during World War II. The film includes The Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project’s “very own” Virginia Russell Reavis, who served as an air evacuation nurse for the U.S. Army Air Force, telling her story. Virginia Russell Reavis’ Papers: http://library.uncg.edu/dp/wv/collection.aspx?col=286 Information […]

One of the goals of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives is to promote its many collections to University classes. In early November 2010, Reference Librarian Jenny Dale, sent Interim University Archivist Hermann Trojanowski an e-mail requesting an exhibit tailored especially for the History and Philosophy of Sport and Physical Education (KIN […]