For Researchers
Looking for ways to dig into the history of Greensboro and its people? Or to learn more about items in the museum collection? Scroll down to find helpful resources within and outside the museum.
Helpful research sources at the museum include:
For Researchers
Local History Reader
Browse a selection of publications focusing on Greensboro and Guilford County history, organized by subject.
Other Online Sources for Greensboro History
Genealogy Resources at Greensboro Public Library
Tools, collections, and guidance on researching family history in Guilford County and beyond.
Digital Greensboro (UNC Greensboro)
A clearinghouse of resources about Greensboro, its campuses, and its communities coming online summer 2025. It will include digital history collections previously available at Gateway and articles, theses, dissertations, and other scholarly materials from NC DOCKS.
NC A&T University Archives/Special Collections
Records that tell the story of NC A&T’s students and the African American experience in the Piedmont Triad. Includes digital collections and scholarship, relevant library guides, digitized copies of the A&T Register student newspaper and more.
Thomas F. Holgate Library of Archives at Bennett College
Online portal for digital collections related to this Greensboro HBCU. Includes photographs and documents on campus history as well as digitized publications.
The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center is a clearinghouse for materials from over 300 libraries, museums, and archives across the state. Features sections on collections, newspapers, and exhibits. Includes local high school newspapers and yearbooks.
NCPedia is a website managed by the North Carolina Government & Heritage Library at the State Library of North Carolina. It is an amalgamation of information of multiple topics covering the history of North Carolina.
Digital Library on American Slavery (UNCG)
The Digital Library on American Slavery (DLAS) is an expanding resource compiling independent collections focused upon race and slavery in the American South, made searchable through a single, simple interface. Subcollections include The Race and Slavery Petitions Project, N.C. Runaway Slave Advertisements Project, and People Not Property: Slave Deeds.
Southern Historical Collection (UNC)
The Southern Historical Collection (SHC) is home to a diverse collection of unique primary sources about the U.S. South, with strengths in the Antebellum era through the Civil Rights Movement.
North Carolina Digital Collections (State Archives of NC)
Collections provide a wide range of sources on themes important to local, state, and national history.
Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images from across the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, films and video, audio recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections.
Records, research, and resources from the US National Archives.