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The Triad COVID-19 Web Archive
By Jessica Dame As part of its ongoing work to document the history of UNCG, University Archives has been archiving campus websites since 2015. Following the University’s early announcements and response regarding the monitoring of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in March 2020, the University Archives began archiving the University’s COVID-19 related web content. Shortly thereafter, […]
A Cloud of Death Engulfs a Campus: Typhoid Fever and UNCG in 1899
In November and December of 1899, the State Normal and Industrial College [now UNCG] faced a major crisis that almost shut down the school permanently after existing for only eight years. On November 15, 1899, Linda Toms, a student from Shelby NC, died suddenly from typhoid fever. Following her death, twelve more students would contract […]
