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SCUA 50TH ANNIVERSARY SPEAKER SERIES PRESENTATIONS & “FIRST FRIDAYS”
Please Join us for First Friday Discussions Use this Zoom Link for all presentations: https://go.uncg.edu/firstfridays June 3, 12pm: African American Employees at UNCG Before Segregation, Erin Lawrimore July 1, 12pm: A Closer Look at the Anno tricesimo tertio Henrici octavi: Frightening Laws enacted by Henry VIII!, Stacey Krim and Kathelene McCarty Smith August 5, 12pm: TBD September […]
MFA Creative Writers Visit SCUA
-Suzanne Sawyer Creative writing graduate students in Associate Professor Emilia Phillips’ ENG 682: The Structure of Verse course visited SCUA on the afternoon of April 20, 2022. Students, some fiction writers and some poets, met with SCUA staff members Carolyn Shankle and Suzanne Sawyer for an immersion experience in spontaneous composition, typesetting and letterpress printing, […]
Oral History year in review 2021-UNCG Institutional Memory Collection documents pandemic experience at UNCG
– Scott Hinshaw For the year 2021, the UNCG Institutional Memory Collection interviewed two UNCG administrators and one staff member to document their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Julia Jackson-Newsom was the Associate Vice Chancellor for Strategy and Policy at UNCG until she left to work at her alma mater, Wake Forest University, in […]
SCUA News: Spring 2022
Welcome to two new members in Special Collections and University Archives ! Lisa R. Withers earned a BA in African & Afro-American Studies with a History Minor from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a MA in History with a Museum Studies Concentration from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She […]
Collection of Distinction
by Carolyn Shankle Rare Books documents the complex history of race and race relations through published accounts. Our holdings contextualize and expand the primary source materials collected in Manuscripts. The reader will discover how the writers persevered and actively advocated for their freedom as well as their hopes for a more equitable future. NOTABLE WORKS […]
The Women Veterans Historical Project Meets Innovative Instruction
by Beth Ann Koelsch Cindy Damm McPeters (PhD Candidate) who received the 2020-2021 Hephzibah Roskelly Award for Pedagogical Innovation at UNCG, has been working with me to integrate materials from the Women Veterans Historical Project into her undergraduate classes since 2018. The award “recognizes outstanding and inventive pedagogical practice in an undergraduate academic writing course. […]
Curtain’s Up! The Carolina Theatre Records Come to Special Collections and University Archives
The Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives is thrilled to announce that we are now the home to the Carolina Theatre of Greensboro’s historic materials. A donation to our Manuscript collections, the Carolina Theatre’s materials include programs, marketing materials, slides, photographs, artifacts, and digital records. The Carolina Theatre has been an important cultural […]
Dust Jackets to Die For
Stories of murder, suspense, and horror fill the shelves of the American Women’s Detective Fiction Collection in the Martha Blakeney Special Collections & University Archives. It is the dust jacket artists’ struggle to convey the authors’ foreboding tales of intrigue and vengeance in book covers enticing to potential readers. Sometimes, these attempts fall short of […]
Shakespeare Exhibit
The UNCG sponsored series, The Globe and the Cosmos, is a year-long celebration of William Shakespeare and Galileo Galilei on the 450th anniversary of their respective births. It is a collaborative project that brings artists and scholars to campus and taps into the knowledge and talent of its faculty, students, and staff. The celebration also […]
C-SPAN2 Book TV Program features Women Veterans Historical Project and WWI Pamphlets
C-SPAN2 Book TV visited Greensboro and made a trip to Special Collections and University Archives. Beth Ann Koelsch, Curator of the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project (WVHP) and Keith Gorman, Head of Special Collections and University Archives were featured on C-Span2 Book TV in February, 2015. Koelsch showcased a selection of books by […]
