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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 […]

REPRESENT: From Women’s Suffrage to Changing the World

Wednesday, August 26, 2020 - Saturday, August 29, 2020

It's a commemoration of 100 years of the 19th Amendment and a look ahead to what women's leadership might look like in the future. Produced with the Greensboro Public Library, […]

Suffrage Stories: A Complicated Narrative

Thursday, August 27, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

From Smithsonian Affiliations, a discussion of women's struggle for the right to vote, from different perspectives. After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was […]

History Lunch Break: Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown & Her Legacies

Friday, August 28, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm

Educator Charlotte Hawkins Brown established the Palmer Memorial Institute in 1902. Over the next half century she would make it into a leading preparatory school for African American students. Glenn […]

Represent: Running For Office and Beyond

Friday, August 28, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Many barriers exist for women looking to run for office. Join us for a virtual program with comedian, actress, and activist June Diane Raphael, and Kate Black, former chief of […]

To Everyone in All the World: A Celebration of Pete Seeger

Thursday, September 10, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Part of Anthems of Change from Greensboro Public Library Six-time Grammy nominee John McCutcheon shares an evening of music in this wide-ranging tribute to the music of his friend and […]

History Lunch Break: O. Henry in Texas, Heart of the West

Friday, September 11, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm

The Greensboro History Museum isn’t alone in sharing the story of famous short story writer William Sydney Porter (born Sept. 11, 1862, and better known as O. Henry). We’re joined […]

History Lunch Break: Dancing Who We Are

Friday, September 18, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm

This year’s National Dance Day festivities are taking place online rather than live in LeBauer Park. We’re joined by Amanda Miller from Greensboro Downtown Parks and performers Jaleel Cheek, Ramya […]