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April 2021

History Lunch Break: For Greensboro Was the Hospital

April 30, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Free
Portraits of Dr. John Wesley Long, Dr. S.P. Sebastian, Nurse Clara Peck

As North Carolina crossed into the 20th century, the state's medical establishment was tested by a harmful and contagious disease:…

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May 2021

History Lunch Break: Pan-Asian Voices

May 7, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Free
Christie Soper and Tina Firesheets

May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month and a chance to explore the contributions and diversity of AAPI families…

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History Lunch Break: Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum

May 28, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Free

In 2019-2020, on a residency at UNCG, artist Shoshana Gugenheim conceived of a new contemporary Jewish museum for Greensboro. The…

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June 2021

History Lunch Break: Remnants of the ORD

June 11, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Free

Between 1943 and 1946, more than 330,000 soldiers passed through Greensboro’s Overseas Replacement Depot (ORD), the largest World War II…

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October 2021

History Lunch Break: Arts & Access Giving Voices to the Blind

October 15, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Free

Greensboro’s Industries of the Blind (IOB) has been providing work opportunities for people who are visually impaired since the Great…

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November 2021

History Lunch Break: Preserving Veterans’ Stories

November 12, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Free
Four soldiers with flags marching in parade on downtown street receive salutes from those watching in a military booth

For nearly a century, the Greensboro History Museum has been collecting objects associated with local veterans. Curator of Collections Jon…

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January 2022

History Lunch Break: New Year Traditions from Taiwan

January 28, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Free
Tiger 2022

February 1 will mark the start of the Lunar New Year, and across East Asia different communities have their own…

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April 2022

History Lunch Break: A New Look at Thomas Day

April 8, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Free

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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May 2022

History Lunch Break: Asian American Pacific Island Stories of Now

May 27, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Free

Museum staff and partners produced the documentary This Is My Home Now, exploring the stories of Montagnard youth in Greensboro…

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June 2022

History Lunch Break: NC Pride PAC and LGBTQ+ Political Organizing

June 10, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Free

The 1990 U.S. Senate race, featured in the museum’s NC Democracy: Eleven Elections exhibition, was watched nationwide. In North Carolina…

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