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April 2021
History Lunch Break: East White Oak Past and Present
The East White Oak Community Center has been serving its mill village neighborhood for more than a century. Justin Lewter…
Find out more »History Lunch Break: NC African Americans During World War II
Ernest Hooker from the North Carolina A&T State University Department of History and Political Science talks with Jon Zachman about…
Find out more »History Lunch Break: For Greensboro Was the Hospital
As North Carolina crossed into the 20th century, the state's medical establishment was tested by a harmful and contagious disease:…
Find out more »May 2021
History Lunch Break: Pan-Asian Voices
May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month and a chance to explore the contributions and diversity of AAPI families…
Find out more »History Lunch Break: Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum
In 2019-2020, on a residency at UNCG, artist Shoshana Gugenheim conceived of a new contemporary Jewish museum for Greensboro. The…
Find out more »June 2021
History Lunch Break: Remnants of the ORD
Between 1943 and 1946, more than 330,000 soldiers passed through Greensboro’s Overseas Replacement Depot (ORD), the largest World War II…
Find out more »October 2021
History Lunch Break: Arts & Access Giving Voices to the Blind
Greensboro’s Industries of the Blind (IOB) has been providing work opportunities for people who are visually impaired since the Great…
Find out more »November 2021
History Lunch Break: Preserving Veterans’ Stories
For nearly a century, the Greensboro History Museum has been collecting objects associated with local veterans. Curator of Collections Jon…
Find out more »January 2022
History Lunch Break: New Year Traditions from Taiwan
February 1 will mark the start of the Lunar New Year, and across East Asia different communities have their own…
Find out more »April 2022
History Lunch Break: A New Look at Thomas Day
Thomas Day was a free person of color and one of the more successful furniture makers in nineteenth-century North Carolina.…
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