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Special Collections and University Archives
Month: June 2026
The New Deal and the Depression: The impact of New Deal Administrations on the Women’s College of the University of North Carolina
by Carlos Diaz In 1934 Emma Lee Aderholdt, a senior in the home economics program, alongside assistants from the home economics program would sketch a map depicting the school in a birds eye view. The map had multiple purposes behind it, the first and main one to fund a scholarship for the Home Economics Program.1The map was drawn in a manner […]
Mapping the Home Economics Girl: The Aderholt Campus Map and the Social Architecture of Home Economics
by Daniel Collins In January 1935, a new “bird’s-eye view” of the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina (WCUNC) went on sale for fifty cents. For the students of the era, the map was more than a navigational aid; it was a vibrant, colored illustration of their world, featuring everything from the “odor […]
“P. J. Party” in the Quad
by Nikki Waller The Campus Map and A Wave of Expansion In 1934, a Home Economics student, Emma Lee Aderholdt, drew a map of the way the campus looked when she was a student. When the college opened, there were only about five total buildings on campus and three departments, as shown in The Decennial.[1] […]
A Bird’s Eye View of the Campus of the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina
by Luke Simandle In 1935, Emma Lee Aderholt would create a campus map with the help of assistants [fig 1]. This map, when analyzed and contextualized, can illuminate a broader picture of women participating not only in map-making but in the making of Pictorial maps. In order to accomplish this, it is necessary to determine […]
Greensboro Jewish Memories
Greensboro Jewish Memories is a collaborative work in progress between the UNCG Department of History, the UNCG University Libraries, the UNCG Jewish Studies Program, and organizations of the Greensboro Jewish community. The project focuses on gathering, preserving and publishing print and digital historical materials related to Greensboro Jewish communal institutions on Digital Greensboro. We have also collected and digitized numerous oral […]
Humanities at Work
During the 2025-2026 academic year, SCUA served as an internship site for the College of Arts and Sciences Humanities at Work program. Five undergraduate humanities majors were assigned to work on a variety of projects related to student engagement and the history of student life at UNCG. The 2025-2026 SCUA H@W cohort were: We asked […]
New Acquisitions: Spring 2026
Manuscripts Katherine Johnson Papers Katherine (Wright) Johnson was born on August 30, 1938. She attended the Woman’s College (now UNC Greensboro) from 1956 to 1960, earning a bachelor’s degree in Theatre Arts. During her junior year, she participated in a USO tour to military bases in the Far East, with stops in Japan and South […]
World Peace by Edward Hutchins
– Audrey Sage UNCG’s Special Collections and University Archives are very fortunate to house a copy Edward Hutchins’ wonderful work titled World Peace. “Edward H. Hutchins (born 1948) is an American book artist and small-press publisher specializing in innovative handmade artists’ books and multiples through his Editions imprint. Based in New York studios, including Mount […]
Memoir of the Life of Richard Henry Lee
by Audrey Sage Held within UNCG’s Special Collections and University Archives is a two volume set titled Memoir of the Life of Richard Henry Lee, and His Correspondence. This two-volume biography was authored by his grandson, Richard H. Lee, of Leesburg, Virginia, and details the life of the Virginia Founding Father and signer of the […]
Food’s Paradise and Cookery Labs: Mapping Food Pathways
by Halenia Phillips Arguably, the most vital connecting point between people is food. It connects to the soul, to the very history of a person. A meal shared is a history shared, and what better medium to connect so many young women of different backgrounds and stories than food? A college campus needs its dining areas- […]