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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 […]
NEW ACQUISITIONS – WINTER 2026
Manuscripts The Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections & University Archives is proud to announce that it will be the repository for the archive of the Eastern Music Festival (EMF). EMF, established in 1962 in Greensboro, North Carolina, is nationally acclaimed not only as a celebration of classical music, but also for its music education camp. The festival attracted world-class artists, many of whom […]
INSTRUCTION WINTER 2026
The Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) has a strong commitment to student outreach, teaching numerous instructional sessions per semester. These sessions often include a PowerPoint presentation and a display of material from SCUA’s collections. Archivists also conduct hands-on primary source analysis exercises to encourage students’ understanding of how to distinguish between […]
The Small, But Intriguing 1916 History of Music Class Scrapbook
by Kathelene McCarty Smith During the Christmas season of 1916, juniors in the History of Music Class at the State Normal and Industrial College (now UNC Greensboro) presented Professor Wade Brown with a small scrapbook as a token of their esteem. The scrapbook was appropriately decorated with musical bars surrounding photographs of Professor Brown and […]
Renovations update: Winter 2026
While Phase One of the Jackson Library renovation project continues (see updates in the Libraries’ Renovation Review blog), we remain focused on preparing SCUA collections for our relocation during Phase Two. SCUA staff continue to prepare our space in the Becher-Weaver Building to host both collections and staff. But even the large space in Becher-Weaver is not big enough to hold all the unique archival […]
Student Success Winter 2026
Graduate assistant Jordan Fridley’s latest exhibit in the researcher room: UNCG’s 1967 Black Power Forum.
Rediscovered Romance: College Love Letters from WWII
by Sean Mulligan It is not uncommon for the University Archives and Special Collections (SCUA) to receive packages from Amazon, eBay, or other book vendors. So, when a library colleague brought up a box to the third-floor offices addressed to SCUA, I assumed it was simply another routine purchase. However, after taking a closer look […]
SCUA NEWS- WINTER 2026
UNCG University Libraries, the Jewish Studies Program, and the UNCG History Department have been collaborating to create an archive of Jewish history in Greensboro and the Triad area. The Greensboro Jewish Archives and Oral History Project documents and preserves oral histories and archival materials critical to the Jewish and Greensboro communities. Please hold the date […]
In Memoriam: Ella Ross and Angela Davis-Gardner
Ella Ross We recently learned of the passing of Ella Lee Ross, UNCG class of 1965, who served as the Assistant University Archivist in SCUA for the final nine and a half years of her 30-year tenure with University Libraries. Please find her 1997 interview published in the UL staff newsletter, Jackson Leaks, as well […]