Historian, author, and filmmaker Malinda Maynor Lowery on “The Lumbees’ Long Fight to Reimagine Democracy.”

Malinda Maynor Lowery is a historian and documentary film producer who is a member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. In July 2021 she joined Emory University as the Cahoon Family Professor of American History, after spending 12 years at UNC-Chapel Hill and 4 years at Harvard University. Her second book, The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle, was published by UNC Press in 2018. Lowery has also published essays in the New York Times, Oxford American, and Daily Yonder. She produced the Peabody Award-winning A Chef’s Life (PBS, 2013-2018) and Somewhere South (PBS, 2020), and other award-winning programs, as well as Sundance Film Festival entries Real Indian (1996) and Sounds of Faith (1997). Lumbeeland, her latest short film project, is scheduled for release in 2024. Learn more about her work at https://www.malindalowery.com/

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Also participating in the program are Jennifer Revels Baxter, Executive Director of Guilford Native American Association (GNAA), the state’s first urban Indian organization; Dr. Greg O’Brien, chair of the Department of History at UNC Greensboro and co-editor of The Native South: New Histories and Enduring Legacies (University of Nebraska Press, 2017); Nora Dial-Stanley, Chair of the GNAA Board of Directors; and Stephen Bell, American Indian Education coordinator for Guilford County Schools. Scuppernong Books will have copies of The Lumbee Indians available for purchase and signing after the talk.

Free program.  Presented in partnership with Guilford Native American Association and UNC Greensboro Department of History.

The John Floy Wicker Endowment supports Greensboro History Museum’s public programming with an annual event. Wicker was a Greensboro architect whose works include Friendly Shopping Center and Page High School.

Celebrated historian Fergus M. Bordewich discusses his new book KLAN WAR: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction at the Greensboro History Museum for the annual Dortch series. Panel discussion with UNC Greensboro professors Mark Elliott and Deborah H. Barnes follows.

Free event. Books for sale from Scuppernong Books.

Bordewich is the author of eight previous nonfiction books including Congress at War, The First Congress, and America’s Great Debate. In Klan War, he looks at the rise of the white supremacist terrorist organization immediately following the Civil War and the battles undertaken at federal and state levels to combat horrific acts against newly emancipated Black Americans and their white allies, including in North Carolina.

Joining Bordewich for the panel discussion will be Dr. Mark Elliott, Professor of History at UNCG and author of Color-Blind Justice: Albion Tourgée and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson. Also on the panel is Dr. Deborah Barnes, Visiting Lecturer in UNCG’s African American & African Diaspora Studies Program and member of the steering committee for the Guilford County Community Remembrance Project. Greensboro History Museum Curator of Collections Ayla Amon will moderate.

This program is made possible by the museum’s Dortch Memorial Endowment, created in memory of John Johnson Dortch (1930-1984) by the attorneys and staff of his law firm, now Fox Rothschild LLP. It is in support of the History Museum’s award-winning exhibition NC Democracy: Eleven Elections, which explores the election of 1868 and ten other contests that shaped what democracy means in our state today.

Ishmael Titus was one of the Black Patriots who took part in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in 1781 with honor and sacrifice. Centuries later, his descendants have researched and worked to uncover his story. Join us for this free program to learn more about the experiences of enslaved and free people of color at Guilford Courthouse, and about the sources family and professional historians are drawing on to bring those stories to light. The program has been developed as a collaboration between Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, Greensboro Public Library, and the Greensboro History Museum. We are celebrating #NationalLibraryWeek and #NationalParkWeek.

This program will also stream on the Greensboro Public Library’s Facebook page
It is free, but registration is suggested. To register, email Beth Sheffield.

FREE PROGRAM

It’s a night of fun and games plus serious Expert Takes around gerrymandering in NC. Discover what’s behind electoral redistricting with experts from across the state. Try your hand at our Gerrymander Madness VR experience and enjoy a live onstage game show. Plus, live jazz duo from UNCG Miles Davis Jazz Studies Program, adult beverages for sale from Little Brother Brewing, and much much more!

5:30 pm Social time! Beer available for purchase, live jazz duo, VR experience, retro 3-D glasses

6:30 pm Expert Takes panel: What is happening with electoral redistricting in NC, and what we can all do about it.

Featuring Tyler Daye, Policy and Civic Engagement Manager for Common Cause NC; J. Michael Bitzer, Chair of Political Science at Catawba College and author of the book Redistricting and Gerrymandering in North Carolina: Battle Lines in the Tar Heel State; and Jim Clotfelter, UNCG Vice Chancellor Emeritus & Professor of Political Science Emeritus. Moderated by Robby Hassell, Regional Judicial Outreach Liaison · ABA Judicial Division

8:00 pm Gameshow Madness live in the auditorium

NC Democracy: Eleven Elections exhibition and Democracy Games in Connection Point open throughout the evening.

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Park early. Enjoy a special buffet dinner and wine. Meet our experts. Get reserved auditorium seating for the Expert Takes panel and a madness goody bag.

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March is Women’s History Month! Bring your Little Lions to the museum for snacks, selfies and fun with some of Greensboro leading suffragists! Take part in fun activity with local suffragists Laura Weill Cone and Harriet Elliott for pre-K to 3rd graders and their families.

What’s on voters’ minds this fall ahead of midterm elections? How are court decisions shaping the state’s political landscape? How are the latest electoral maps influencing contests? Political scientist Christopher A. Cooper will be talking with veteran political reporter Lynn Bonner about what may be shaping North Carolinian’s choices this November in a free public program.

Christopher A. Cooper is Robert Lee Madison Distinguished Professor and Director of the Public policy Institute at Western Carolina University. In 2013 he was named North Carolina Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He is a regular contributor to the Old North State Politics blog, co-author of The Resilience of Southern Identity: Why the South Still Matters in the Minds of Its People and co-editor of The New Politics of North Carolina, both published by UNC Press.

Lynn Bonner has worked as an Investigative Reporter at NC Policy Watch since October 2020. Prior to that, she worked for 26 years as a reporter at The News & Observer, where she covered the state legislature and politics, and wrote extensively about mental health, state Medicaid policies and spending, and public education.

The Deeper into Democracy series supports NC Democracy: Eleven Elections. This exhibition explores choices and change across 11 state elections between 1776 and 2010, illustrating the twists and turns of who could participate, how voters cast their ballots, and what influenced decisions that continue to shape what democracy means today.

Play, participate, party!

Drop by for fun and games including team Democracy Trivia, an elaborate History Scavenger Hunt, Gerrymander Madness VR game and more.

Plus crafts, DJ, Backyard Flames food truck, and beverages for sale from Little Brother Brewing!

This free event supports the museum’s exhibition NC Democracy: Eleven Elections. Learn more…

Costumed interpreters in the museum galleries share well-known and little-known stories from the exhibition NC Democracy: Eleven Elections. You’ll meet Federalist James Iredell, North Carolina’s first woman attorney Tabitha Ann Holton, Battle of Hayes Pond Participant Verdia Locklear and many more.

Lifted Voices is a series of living history programs that bring to life people and stories from Greensboro’s (and North Carolina’s) past. This is a free, family-friendly program. Join us for history in first person.