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Month: June 2026
Cooking Through the Counties : Cheese Scones from Polk County
This month’s featured recipe originates from Saluda, North Carolina, located in Polk County. The author, Ron Poole, is known for his cookbook Fat Man’s Favorites: Down Home and Delicious Recipes of Family, Friends & Enemies (2000). Given the engaging title, it promises a wonderful collection of recipes. In the introduction, Ron explains that the cookbook […]
Dr. Lisa Tolbert
Spring 2026 marks my final semester at UNCG. For most of my 32 years in the History Department I have been teaching historical research methods classes in partnership with the dedicated archivists at Special Collections and University It is an invaluable resource for giving students authentic archival research experience. This spring, students in HIS 430 […]
Pat Sweeney Scrapbook
The majority of scrapbooks in the Women Veterans Historical Project Collections are from World War II. Sweeney created this homemade album with interesting graphic elements. Marsha Paulette “Pat” Sweeney (b. 1942), of Pembroke, North Carolina, served in the American Red Cross from 1964 to 1965. Sweeney was born on 17 February 1942 to Joseph Walter […]
SCUA News: Spring 2026
Erin Lawrimore is Recognized as the Humanities at Work Community Partner of the Year On May 1, Dr. Lauren Shook presented Erin Lawrimore and the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives with the inaugural Community Partner of the Year Award. Intern Piettr Codr presented the award to Lawrimore, describing her as “one of […]
Student Success: Spring 2026
SCUA Student Showcase Proves a Great Success On Friday, April 10, University Archivist Erin Lawrimore hosted “Spartans in the Stacks,” a SCUA Student Showcase in Hodges Reading Room. The Showcase spotlighted students’ work accomplished during their time working in the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives this year. These graduate and undergraduate students, working in […]
Instruction: Spring 2026
History 212: The United States: A General Survey Since 1860 Kathelene McCarty Smith, Carolyn Shankle, and Stacey Krim curated a pop-up exhibit for the students in Alyssa Kuchinski’s HIS 212 class. The exhibit highlighted United States history from 1860 – 1990s through primary sources and popular culture artifacts. SCUA Field Experience Students’ Preservation Lab Session […]
Wordless Novels at SCUA
by Jordan Fridley Wordless novels, also known as woodcut novels, use sequences of wordless images to tell a story using woodcut and other relief printing techniques. The genre reached its peak popularity in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, prior to the rise in film and anti-socialist censorship, particularly in Nazi Germany and the United […]