The East White Oak Community Center has been serving its mill village neighborhood for more than a century. Justin Lewter join us to talk about the center’s history and future, and Sarah Anne Maske shares her research into the African American textile workers’ experience at Cone Mills. Free program. Register to join on Zoom Register Or […]

Join us as community experts answer questions from our Democracy Tables conversations about housing and equity 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 part […]

Greensboro is home to many diverse communities who have faced different historical challenges. This webinar series explores four sometimes overlooked groups and shares some of the resources and support available to them. Series co-sponsored by the City of Greensboro Human Rights Department and the Greensboro History Museum. In part 2 of this series, understand why […]

Special Opportunity for Museum Members Join a talk by Caste author Isabel Wilkerson. This virtual event is part of Wake Forest University’s Face to Face Speaker Forum. Learn more at facetoface.wfu.edu. Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, is the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestsellers The […]

Ernest Hooker from the North Carolina A&T State University Department of History and Political Science talks with Jon Zachman about experiences of African American men and women during the war years and what had changed for them since the end of the Great War. Free program. Register to join on Zoom Register Or watch live on […]

Greensboro is home to many diverse communities who have faced different historical challenges. This webinar series explores four sometimes overlooked groups and shares some of the resources and support available to them. Series co-sponsored by the City of Greensboro Human Rights Department and the Greensboro History Museum. In part 3, hear about the need for […]

Greensboro is home to many diverse communities who have faced different historical challenges. This webinar series explores four sometimes overlooked groups and shares some of the resources and support available to them. Series co-sponsored by the City of Greensboro Human Rights Department and the Greensboro History Museum. In part 4, find out about the need […]

As North Carolina crossed into the 20th century, the state's medical establishment was tested by a harmful and contagious disease: tuberculosis. UNCG Museum Studies Master’s student Summer Crews talks about her research into how Dr. Simon Powell Sebastian, Dr. John Wesley Long, Nurse Clara Peck and others worked to protect Greensboro from the “white plague.” […]

May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month and a chance to explore the contributions and diversity of AAPI families and individuals locally. Tina Firesheets and Christie Soper join us to talk about Pan Asian Voices and Experiences in North Carolina (PAVE NC), a new online project highlighting Asian American stories and communities across our […]

Susan Webster considers three items in the museum's Dolley Madison Collection -- a fish hook, silk gown, and Harmony Breakfast snuff box -- to explore questions of why we keep mementos and what they can mean for understanding parts of history. Guests welcome. To join this Zoom meeting, contact tfripp@triad.rr.com