• Democracy Tables: You Asked! Housing & Equity

    Saturday, April 10, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

    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 […]

    From Grassroots to Government: Reentry Support

    Tuesday, April 13, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

    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 […]

    Wake Forest University Face to Face Speaker Forum: Isabel Wilkerson

    Wednesday, April 14, 2021 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

    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 […]

    History Lunch Break: NC African Americans During World War II

    Friday, April 16, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm

    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 […]

    From Grassroots to Government: Ad Hoc Committee on African American Disparities

    Tuesday, April 20, 2021 @ 6:00 pm

    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 […]

    From Grassroots to Government: Transgender Task Force

    Tuesday, April 27, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

    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 […]

    History Lunch Break: For Greensboro Was the Hospital

    Friday, April 30, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm

    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.” […]

  • History Lunch Break: Pan-Asian Voices

    Friday, May 7, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm

    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 […]

    Museum Guild Zoom Meeting: Hook, Line and Sniffer — the Dolley Madison Collection

    Monday, May 17, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am

    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

    International Museum Day Roundtable on Museums & Migration

    Tuesday, May 18, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

    What are the challenges to engaging with belonging and exclusion within cities and across countries? And how does migration connect with and illuminate issues like climate, Covid and (de)colonization? With Omar Ali, Professor and Dean of Lloyd International Honors College, UNC Greensboro; Andréa Delaplace, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; Emily Miller, Head of Learning and Partnerships, […]