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Nancy Drew – Girl Detective and Cultural Icon
If you have not had a chance to get by the Nancy Drew exhibit in the Jackson Library Lobby – please do so! Perhaps more than any other book series, the Nancy Drew mysteries have captured the hearts and imagination of generations of young adults. First published in the 1930s, the books featured the adventures of the independent, […]
A Well Crafted NC Update
After a very successful launch event on April 14th at Little Brother Brewing in Downtown Greensboro, the Well Crafted NC project continues to grow. The project, which began in Fall 2017 thanks to a University Libraries Innovation and Enrichment Grant, will be expanding its documentation scope to cover the craft beer and brewing industry across […]
Celebrating 125 Years of Opportunity and Excellence: An Exhibit of UNCG History
As part of the University’s celebration of 125 years of opportunity and excellence, the Hodges Reading Room in Jackson Library will feature an exhibit of UNCG history through the end of the academic year. Exhibit materials will rotate throughout the year, with new content added on a bimonthly basis. It will conclude on May 31, […]
University Archives Showcased in 125th Anniversary Celebrations
On October 5, 2017, UNCG will celebrate the 125th anniversary of the first ever first day of school. On that day, nearly 200 women from across North Carolina traveled to Greensboro to attend classes at the State Normal and Industrial School. Over the last few weeks, the University Archives has been busy with pop up […]
New Exhibit in Hodges Reading Room: “Athletics and Active College Work”
A new exhibit titled “Athletics and Active College Work: Women’s Fitness and Sport at State Normal, 1892-1920” is now on display in the Hodges Reading Room in Jackson Library. This exhibit explores women’s athletics at the turn of the 20th century through the lens of the State Normal and Industrial School (now UNCG). From its […]
SCUA Welcomes Class of 1967 with Reunion Exhibit
On Friday, April 7th, SCUA staff continued their annual tradition of mounting an exhibit to welcome the 50th anniversary class back to the UNCG campus during Reunion Weekend. This year’s exhibit, focused on the Class of 1967, featured their class jacket, yearbooks, scrapbooks, class newsletters, photographs, and more from University Archives. Materials on women in […]
A Testimony through Music: The Compositions of Lev Aronson. Cellist, Teacher, and Holocaust Survivor
Lev Aronson is remembered as a distinguished cellist, teacher, and survivor of the Holocaust. Born February 7, 1912 in München Gladbach (now Mönchengladbach), Germany, the story of Aronson’s life and music serve as inspiration for countless students and fans, well beyond his death in 1988. With his family forced from their home in Latvia during […]
Hop into History!
On Thursday, September 15 from 5pm until 7pm, archivists from UNCG will be at Gibb’s Hundred Brewing Company in Downtown Greensboro to launch the new monthly “Hop into History series with an exhibit on the local civil rights landscape in the 1950s and 1960s. Come see the typewriter used by one of the first African American […]
Learning from Medieval Manuscripts
On exhibit in the Hodges Reading room in Jackson Library “Learning from Medieval Manuscripts” The University Libraries is fortunate to have in its collections, “Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts. Western Europe: XII-XVI Century”, a portfolio collection created by Otto F. Ege in the 1940’s, a professor of art history and dean of the Cleveland […]
SCUA at Reunion Weekend: Welcoming back the Class of 1966!
On Friday, April 15 as part of the University’s Reunion Weekend activities, staff of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives set up a large exhibit on University history and the University in the 1960s in the Pre-Function Room of the EUC Auditorium. Members of the Class of 1966 were able to reminisce […]