Skip to main content

History Lunch Break: Of Regulators and Revolutionaries

Friday, May 29, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm

Beginning in the late 1760s, a group of Piedmont NC farmers calling themselves the Regulators organized against increased taxation and other injustices from colonial officials. These protests would lead to […]

History Lunch Break: Games, Democracy, Museums, Tech

Friday, June 26, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm

The Durham-based tech consultancy CrossComm Inc. developed "Gerrymander Madness: The Anti-Democracy VR Game" for the Greensboro History Museum's Project Democracy 20/20 initiative. CrossComm CEO Don Shin joins us on this […]

History Notes Podcast Live: Marching Together

Saturday, August 8, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Peek behind the scenes for a live taping of our History Notes podcast. We’ll be livestreaming a recording session with people connected to the Marching Together mural painted during the […]

Teaching Controversial History: A Webinar for Educators

Tuesday, August 11, 2020 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Dr. Allison Fredette teaches in the History Education Program at Appalachian State University. In this webinar, she will equip educators and instructors to teach difficult subjects such as slavery, racism […]

History Lunch Break: Documenting History Happening Now in NC

Friday, August 14, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm

How are museums and archives capturing the experiences and artifacts of 2020? How do we curate these materials? How do we preserve them? Host Glenn Perkins introduces GHM’s History Happening […]

Lessons in Racism from Those Who Taught Us: A Webinar

Tuesday, August 18, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Members of the Ever-Achievers Retired Teachers Club share experiences fighting racism inside and outside the classroom. Participants include retired educators Ginny Williamson, Flossie Smith, Coley Hooker and Bettye Matier. Part […]

Remembering a Lynching: A Webinar

Tuesday, August 25, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Deborah Barnes and Terry Hammond of the Guilford County Community Remembrance Project discuss the county's only documented lynching, the 1887 murder of Eugene Hairston. Civil rights attorney James Mayes will […]