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New Acquisitions: Spring 2026
Manuscripts Katherine Johnson Papers Katherine (Wright) Johnson was born on August 30, 1938. She attended the Woman’s College (now UNC Greensboro) from 1956 to 1960, earning a bachelor’s degree in Theatre Arts. During her junior year, she participated in a USO tour to military bases in the Far East, with stops in Japan and South […]
Humanities at Work
During the 2025-2026 academic year, SCUA served as an internship site for the College of Arts and Sciences Humanities at Work program. Five undergraduate humanities majors were assigned to work on a variety of projects related to student engagement and the history of student life at UNCG. The 2025-2026 SCUA H@W cohort were: We asked […]
Greensboro Jewish Memories
Greensboro Jewish Memories is a collaborative work in progress between the UNCG Department of History, the UNCG University Libraries, the UNCG Jewish Studies Program, and organizations of the Greensboro Jewish community. The project focuses on gathering, preserving and publishing print and digital historical materials related to Greensboro Jewish communal institutions on Digital Greensboro. We have also collected and digitized numerous oral […]
A Bird’s Eye View of the Campus of the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina
by Luke Simandle In 1935, Emma Lee Aderholt would create a campus map with the help of assistants [fig 1]. This map, when analyzed and contextualized, can illuminate a broader picture of women participating not only in map-making but in the making of Pictorial maps. In order to accomplish this, it is necessary to determine […]
“P. J. Party” in the Quad
by Nikki Waller The Campus Map and A Wave of Expansion In 1934, a Home Economics student, Emma Lee Aderholdt, drew a map of the way the campus looked when she was a student. When the college opened, there were only about five total buildings on campus and three departments, as shown in The Decennial.[1] […]
Mapping the Home Economics Girl: The Aderholt Campus Map and the Social Architecture of Home Economics
by Daniel Collins In January 1935, a new “bird’s-eye view” of the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina (WCUNC) went on sale for fifty cents. For the students of the era, the map was more than a navigational aid; it was a vibrant, colored illustration of their world, featuring everything from the “odor […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]