Events

Join us for an informal discussion about what the pandemic, protests and economic situation of 2020 have meant to different communities in Greensboro. Whose stories are missing from Pieces of Now and how do we fit those missing pieces into the puzzle? Register to join on Zoom Register This program will not be recorded.

Joshua Branton, Gavin Cooley, Virginia Holmes and Azariah Journey connected during protests against racial violence and injustice in Downtown Greensboro. Join them for a conversation about issues that brought them together over the summer and what’s on their minds for the months ahead. Register to join on Zoom Register This program will not be recorded. […]

Juilee Decker, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Museum Studies program at Rochester Institute of Technology, joins us to talk about the online digital history collaborative A Journal of the Plague Year. The project is documenting how the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting our lives in ways both mundane and extraordinary. History Lunch Break brings […]

Discover how Smithsonian Affiliate museums are making connections around activism, expression and healing. Then join in a post-program discussion to reflect on those topics here in Greensboro. Smithsonian Affiliations, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center and two Affiliates—the Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, CA) and the Wing Luke Museum of the […]

Stephen Bell, American Indian Education Coordinator for Guilford County Schools, joins us to talk about serving Indigenous students in the public schools, Native American History Month celebrations and much more. History Lunch Break brings you occasionally weekly conversations on all kinds of history with all kinds of interesting people. Click here to see what’s coming up… and be […]

Kellie D. Brown is Chair of the Music Department at Milligan University in Elizabethton, Tennessee and Director of the Milligan Orchestra. Her recent book “The Sound of Hope” explores how music served as “solace, resistance and salvation” during the Holocaust. Register to join on Zoom  Register Part of the Holocaust Education webinar series

Author Elizabeth Rosner’s 2017 memoir “Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory” was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the year. In it, she connects her own family story to a broader examination of how atrocities can shape the memories of […]

Learn the story behind the creation of a Holocaust memorial in Greensboro through a conversation with the people behind it, including artist Victoria Milstein, Holocaust educator Shelly Weiner, Greensboro Jewish Federation’s Executive Director Marilyn Forman Chandler and Holocaust scholar David M. Crowe, Presidential Fellow at Chapman University and Professor Emeritus of History & Law at […]

Join the Greensboro Public Library and Greensboro History Museum for the premiere of "O. Henry's Gift of the Magi: A Community Read." This new video brings people from across Greensboro together to read O. Henry's holiday classic. Some of our readers will be on hand to share thoughts about the story, the season and more! […]

We're partnering with Action Greensboro to collect your 2021 New Year’s resolutions as part of our History Happening Now initiative. What are you resolve to do in 2021? Call or text with your resolution using our #ResolutionGSO hotline at 336-543-0440!