Partner Program

The Greensboro News and Record is working with Pediment Publishing to publish a new coffee table book titled Greensboro Memories: A Pictorial History of the mid-1800s through the 1930s. They are seeking photo contributions from the community to include. Do you have original photographs of life in Greensboro from the 1930s or before? If you’d […]

Artist Edwin Gil will lead a community conversation in the Greensboro History Museum to help us see how despite our differences and diversity we are all connected and are special in our own way. Faces of Diversity: Greensboro Project is a community building and character development public art project - with hopes to open up […]

Rescheduled! Join UNCG Museum Studies students and Greensboro History Museum staff at the site of the former Central Carolina Convalescent Hospital for talks, stories, and sharing about the history of hospital as a response to the 1948 polio epidemic. Program takes place at People & Paws for Hope, 710 Huffine Mill Road, Greensboro. Refreshments provided. […]

The Negro Motorist Green Book was an annual travel guide aimed at African American travelers published between 1936 and 1964. Over its 28 years of publication, this national guide included 327 listings for North Carolina, including 14 in Greensboro. Learn about the effort to document these locations and the history of African American motor travel. […]

Join us for a special lecture on Guilford County history with Robert Leath, Chief Curator & Vice President at Old Salem Museums & Gardens. The distinctive furniture of early Quaker settlers in Guilford County was first presented by the late John Bivins in a pioneering article in the May 1973 issue of The Magazine ANTIQUES, […]

Triad History Day is a free one-day public festival focused on Triad history, both the stories and the people who preserve them. The event will feature a “history hall” with displays from history organizations, a series of lightning round talks focused on local history, as well as booths focused on oral history, preservation advice, and […]

Greensboro Public Library kicks off  One City, One Book 2019 with a visit from Osha Gray Davidson, author of Best of Enemies. This book is about the relationship between the civil rights activist Ann Atwater and her nemesis, C. P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan. The events in the book took place […]

The News and Record is working with Pediment Publishing to publish a new coffee table book titled Greensboro Memories II: The 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Do you have original photographs of life in Greensboro from the 1940s through 1960s? If you’d like your photos to be considered for the book, come to one of the […]

Curator of Community History Glenn Perkins talks with former Cone Mills employees and mill village residents about life and work in Greensboro's textile mills. Part of Mill Day 2019 at Revolution Mill 

In this conversation we’ll explore the language of hate vs. the language of dissent, who decides who is allowed to speak and how, and the responsibility of the media consumer in safeguarding free speech issues. With Jonathan Friedman, project director for campus free speech at PEN America; Allen Johnson, Editorial Page Editor at the Greensboro […]