Discuss your experiences with law enforcement, and ways they can best serve our communities, at one of our 75 minute conversation sessions. The Democracy Tables project seeks engagement from residents of Greensboro and the surrounding area to explore, question, and respond to community concerns in an intimate and informal group setting. We will talk, share […]

The 1918-19 influenza epidemic helped transform Lunsford Richardson’s Vicks business into a global company. Ashley Kaufman, author of “The Little Blue Jar,” joins us to talk about the history of Vicks VapoRub and writing her family story. Free program. Register to join on Zoom Register Or watch live on the Greensboro History Museum Facebook page History […]

Join Smithsonian Affiliations for a look at chefs Lena Richard and Julia Child. Through their cookbooks, teaching, and television programs, these extraordinary women inspired generations of people to take cooking seriously. They challenged perceptions and stereotypes of women in their respective eras and made lasting contributions to culinary history. Their stories, reflective of their very […]

Join us as community experts answer questions from our Democracy Tables conversations about police, community and justice in Greensboro. Streaming live on the Greensboro History Museum Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/GHMuseum Democracy Tables are a collaboration between the Greensboro History Museum and the UNCG Communication Studies Department through the NCA Center for Communication, Community, Collaboration and Change and […]

Rebecca Barefoot of Guilford Courthouse National Military Park joins us to talk about the Battle of Guilford Courthouse and some of its lesser known participants. She’ll also share how the national park is planning on commemorating the 240th anniversary of the important Revolutionary War battle this month. Free program. Register to join on Zoom Register Or […]

The British are coming, just as they did 240 years ago, but not to Guilford Courthouse! Reenactor Jay Callahan will sneak us behind enemy lines to discover how a British soldier dressed, fought, and thought. Guests welcome. To take part, contact tfripp@triad.rr.com

Immigration in Guilford County webinar series Part 2, with Natacha Nikokeza, Center for New North Carolinians The United States is known for its diversity through immigration. But what does it take to be a part of a community in this country in 2021? Greensboro’s Center for New North Carolinians will help us all answer that […]

In honor of Women's History Month, Museum Director Carol Ghiorsi Hart chats with Susan Webster about what it has been like taking care of the museum's Dolley Madison collection for over forty years, and one of her favorite artifacts, a snuff box with Dolley's image from 1912. Free program. Register to join on Zoom Register

As the Sit-in Movement launched in Greensboro expanded, Ella Baker of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference invited student leaders to gather at Shaw University on an April weekend in 1960. There, she would help those students organize the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Dr. Lea E. Williams, author of We Who Believe in Freedom: The […]

In this discussion, scholars from the National Museum of the American Indian, Asian Pacific American Center and Smithsonian American Art Museum explore how artists integrate the ancient world within their contemporary artistic practice. In so doing, their works update and create new meanings, allowing them to pass on complex and layered cultural interpretations to future […]