History – UNCG Community Engagement

Tag: History

States of Incarceration: A National Dialogue of Local Histories

Click here to enlarge image. UNCG professor, Anne Parsons in partnership with community organizations and her History/Museum Studies graduate students...

Wrestling with Governor Aycock and His Legacies

Friday, Oct. 14, 3:30-5:15 p.m. Location: UNCG Auditorium (formerly Aycock Auditorium) After much study and debate, UNCG recently removed Governor Aycock’s...

University Libraries at UNCG Contribute to Google Cultural Institute

Starting this week, African American History artifacts from University Libraries at UNC Greensboro can be viewed online by people around the world due...

The Holocaust may seem long ago. The students hearing Alfred Schnog talk realize it wasn’t so long ago at all.

As boy, he escaped from Nazi Germany

It’s one thing to read about the Holocaust and Nazi Germany in books or see black and white pictures. It’s another to hear the startling, personal memories...

Art Professor Sheryl Oring collects Berlin Wall memories 25 years later

PERFORMANCE ARTIST Sheryl Oring spent a month in Berlin’s Mitte Art professor Sheryl Oring sits at a desk outside the Berlin Wall Memorial, clacking...