Highlights and Exhibits
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- Black Lives Matter Demonstrations and Protest Art
- The purpose of the Triad Black Lives Matters Collection is to document the BLM movement, police brutality protests, and race relations in the Triad area of North Carolina, through materials contributed by the community. The collection contains digital photographs and video footage relating to the Black Lives Matter movement and the George Floyd protests. Collecting for the project is ongoing, and the archive is particularly interested in photographs, video, protest signs, clothing, flyers, posters, creative works, etc. Additionally, the archive would like to document local organizations involved with the movement. The material can be historic, originating with the founding of the movement, as well as current. Physical and digital material can be accepted into the collection. We are also currently gathering and adding documentation of the names of the artists who created the art featured in the documentary photos.
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- Cello Music Collections
- The Cello Music Collections at the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is dedicated to acquiring, preserving, and making accessible cello music collections for research and learning. The cello music collections at UNCG constitute the largest single holding of cello music-related materials in the world. Presently, the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections & University Archives boasts the collections of eleven cellists: Luigi Silva, Elizabeth Cowling, Rudolf Matz, Maurice Eisenberg, Janos Scholz, Fritz Magg, Bernard Greenhouse, Laszlo Varga, Lev Aronson, Lubomir Georgiev, and Marion Davies.
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- Civil Rights Greensboro
- Civil Rights Greensboro provides access to archival resources documenting the modern civil rights era in Greensboro, North Carolina, from the 1940s to the early 1980s, through historical materials such as correspondence, reports, speeches, photographs, newspaper clippings, and oral histories held at five cultural heritage institutions in North Carolina.
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- Conversations in Black: African American History and Heritage, Greensboro, N.C.
- This project is a work in progress connected with a National Register application for the South Benbow Road community in Greensboro, North Carolina. It includes material digitized as part of the application and community engagement process and will eventually include links to oral history interviews conducted as part of the project as well.
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- Good Medicine: Greensboro's Hospitals and Healers
- Over 60,000 pages and images from 28 archival collections documenting Greensboro’s rich medical history from Reconstruction to the present.
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- Jewish Archival Collections Project
- A growing group of institutional and community-contributed collections documenting the Jewish community with an emphasis on its contribution to life in the North Carolina Piedmont Triad area.
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- March for Justice: Documenting the Greensboro Massacre
- March for Justice: Documenting the Greensboro Massacre provides digital access to more than 80,000 pages of material related to the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, an event in which five protestors were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan and neo-nazis. Digitization of the Greensboro Massacre Collection at UNCG and the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Collection at Bennett College provides access to materials that had been completely or partially unavailable. The collections, dating from from 1973 to 2021, document events, actions and persons connected with the Greensboro Massacre and the short-term and long-term aftermath for Greensboro as it bears on racism, white supremacy and labor history. Digitization was made possible though a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant administered through the North Carolina State Library in 2023-2024.
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- Newspapers and Periodicals
- Complete or partial runs of newspapers, magazines, and newsletters. Some of these may be parts of larger personal papers or organizational records collections.
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- O. Henry Collections
- Materials held by the Greensboro Public Library and the Greensboro History Museum relating to Greensboro native William Sidney Porter (O. Henry).
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- PRIDE! of the Community
- PRIDE! Of the Community: Documenting LGBTQ History in the Triad is the first large-scale initiative to document the LGBTQ+ history of the Triad (Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point) area of North Carolina, through community scanning days and other outreach activities. The project includes items from multiple collections, some of them held by UNC Greensboro and partner institutions, and some contributed by community organizations and individuals. PRIDE! Of the Community was originally funded by a Common Heritage grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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- Postwar Greensboro: Urban Renewal and Development
- Documents, maps, photographs, and other material related to Greensboro's physical growth, inclduding subjects such as urban renewal, historic districts, and urban planning.
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- Textiles, Teachers, and Troops: Greensboro, 1880-1945
- Over 175,000 pages of material documenting Greensboro from Reconstruction through World War II, focusing on the influences of the textile industry, education, and the military.
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- Well Crafted NC
- Well Crafted NC documents North Carolina breweries and their history, acknowledging that the current breweries are part of a long history of brewing, providing a single online resource that traces this history and places it within the context of the broader development of the brewing industry across the state.