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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 […]
Wondrous Works: Illuminated Manuscripts from Three Continents February 2016 – May 2016
Special Collections and University Archives at UNCG’s University Libraries has mounted an exhibit highlighting the rich tradition of illuminated manuscripts in Europe, India, Persia, Ethiopia, and Armenia. By presenting these works within a global perspective, the exhibit, Wondrous Works: Illuminated Manuscripts From Three Continents, strives to broaden our understanding of the history of the book, […]
Act of Establishment Creating UNCG — 125 Years Ago Today!!
Today marks the 125th anniversary of the passage of the bill that established the State Normal and Industrial School (now UNCG). On February 18, 1891, the General Assembly of North Carolina agreed to fund a “normal” (teaching) school for women. The act appropriated $10,000 per year for maintenance of the school, but did not include […]
