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New exhibit in Hodges: Cheers to 40 Years! A History of Craft Beer and Brewing in North Carolina
“Cheers to 40 Years! A History of Craft Beer and Brewing in North Carolina,” a new exhibit in Hodges Reading Room, traces the history of craft beer in North Carolina. In 1985, North Carolina State Senator Marc Basnight of Manteo sponsored Senate Bill 536, “An Act to Allow On-Premise Sales of Beer at Mini-Breweries.” Crafted by […]
RENOVATIONS UPDATE
SCUA faculty and staff continue to plan and work towards the upcoming Phase II relocation of our department. This work has included inventorying collections, checking and double-checking boxes to confirm their locations coincide with SCUA’s online content management platform, and labeling boxes in anticipation of moving a portion of our physical collections off site to […]
Cooking Through The Counties – Sour Cream Pound Cake from Alleghany County
This installment of Cooking Through the Counties features a recipe selected from Seasoned with Love, a cookbook compiled by the Women’s Missionary Union of Mount Carmel Baptist Church, located in Glade Valley, in Alleghany County, North Carolina. Three aspects of this recipe caught my eye: the wording of the recipe indicated that the author was […]
NEW ACQUISITIONS – SUMMER 2025
MANUSCRIPTS Nathanial Rosen Collection The Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections & University Archives is pleased to announce the donation of the collection of cellist and recording artist Nathaniel Rosen. Rosen’s early studies were with Eleonore Schoenfeld. Later, he attended the Piatigorsky Master Class at the University of Southern California. He would eventually become Piatigorsky’s teaching […]
BUCOLIC BACKDROP
One of the many beautiful items from SCUA’s Robert C. Hansen Performing Arts Collection is this section of production scenery representing a bucolic landscape. Dr. Hansen is a recently retired professor of theatre at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNC Greensboro). The round piece of scenery had been stored safely in the archives, […]
SCUA INSTRUCTION
Although SCUA staff teach very few instructional sessions during the summer months, Kathelene McCarty Smith taught LIS 683: Preservation, Conservation, and Access, with several guest speakers from the department.
STUDENT SUCCESS
Humanities at Work Program The UNCG Humanities at Work (H@W) program provides exceptional paid internships to undergraduate humanities majors. Students in the program work in small teams with local community partners to learn how to leverage their degrees beyond the classroom. The hands-on, project-based internships will support the partner sites in their vital missions to enrich the […]
Big Little Books
-Audrey Sage The Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) recently received a group of Big Little Books, and other small format books, from the 1930’s. Having been published using wood pulp paper, the pages have not fared well through time, as the acidic content has resulted in the brittle, discolored and fragile state. Our Senior […]
SCUA NEWS
SCUA at the Campus Kickoff Luncheon On August 12, 2025, SCUA created a display of historic materials for the “Kickoff” luncheon, to spotlight campus history. UNCG faculty and staff really enjoyed the exhibit, and even Chancellor Gilliam and the UNCG mascot Spiro were drawn in by SCUA’s great material! Flashback to the 1970s at the Greensboro […]
Lugubrious Distance written and illustrated by Ellen Knudson
Experiencing mourning & loss for North Carolina, almost to an exaggerated degree -2010 -Audrey Sage “One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.” – Charles Dickens “I only recently left North Carolina having lived in both Carolinas my entire life.” “It seems ludicrous now, but I somehow thought I was […]