Voices of a City Award Nominations for 2024 Open

Accepting nominations through October 15 Nominations are being accepted now through October 15 for the Greensboro History Museum’s prestigious Voices of a City Award for 2024. The award recognizes significant and original contributions to local history. Nominations for ......More

Accepting nominations through October 15 Nominations are being accepted now through October 15 for the Greensboro History Museum’s prestigious Voices of a City Award for 2024. The award recognizes significant and original contributions to local history. Nominations for both individuals and organizations will be accepted and self-nominations are welcome. Submissions by or for high school and college students will be judged in a separate category. Projects can be as varied as our city, including oral history, photography, film, published articles, books, student research papers, film and electronic media. Collectors of historical documents or artifacts are also eligible. Previous winners include the J.C. Price School Project, historians Gayle Hicks Fripp and Scott Culclasure, journalist Jim Schlosser, the Guilford County Community Remembrance Project Coalition, the Friends of Green Hill Cemetery, the Ever-Achievers Teachers Club, and William Moss (Carolina Field of Honor). The 2023 winners were preservationist Dr. Tom Sears and the Black Lives Matter Triad Collection at UNCG Libraries. Nominations should include a letter and at least one example of work for consideration, provided in either hard copy (articles or book), CD/DVD or digital format. For digital content, please share website or a Google Drive or Dropbox link, or mail in a USB thumb drive to the address below. Submissions will be evaluated by the Greensboro History Museum, Inc. Community Engagement Committee and its Advisory Board. Award criteria include project originality and significance innovation quality of research within current academic scholarship sources consulted and accessibility of material to the local community and beyond. Nominations for the Voices of a City Award will be accepted from now until October 15.The award presentation will be made at the GHM Inc. Annual Dinner on November 21. “There are many individuals and organizations working on behalf of local history in the area, and we encourage all to submit nominations for this significant recognition,” says Museum Director Carol Ghiorsi Hart. Send submissions to:Voices of a City AwardGreensboro History Museum130 Summit AvenueGreensboro, NC 27401 For questions, contact Museum Director Carol Ghiorsi Hart at [email protected] or call 336-373-2306

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Campaign Madness

Thursday, Sept. 19. Head down the rabbit hole into the wild history of political campaigning across the decades with games, drinks and fun activities. Jon Grinspan, curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, is the special guest at Campaign Madnes......More

Thursday, Sept. 19. Head down the rabbit hole into the wild history of political campaigning across the decades with games, drinks and fun activities. Jon Grinspan, curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, is the special guest at Campaign Madness. This GHM After Hours event also features fun, games and adult beverages for sale as guests go down the rabbit hole to explore the wild history of political campaigning across the decades. Grinspan will be discussing his new book Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War. The book is a propulsive account of American history’s most surprising, most consequential political club: the Wide Awake anti-slavery youth movement that marched America from the 1860 election to civil war. Publishers Weekly calls Wide Awake “an insightful and moving analysis of how America descended into civil war.” Doors open at 5:30 pm with a cash bar, democracy games, and a scavenger hunt in the museum exhibitions. The conversation with Jon Grinspan starts at 6:30 pm with book signing to follow. Copies will be available for purchase from Scuppernong Books. Free and open to the public. Jon Grinspan is Curator of Political History at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. He is the author of the award-winning The Virgin Vote: How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Personal, and Voting Popular in the 19th Century. He frequently contributes to the New York Times, and has been featured in The New Yorker, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. He lives in Washington, D.C. MORE ABOUT THE BOOK At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired-up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti-slavery stump speakers from frequent attacks. The group called themselves the Wide Awakes. Soon, hundreds of thousands of young White and Black men, and a number of women, were organizing boisterous, uniformed, torch-bearing brigades of their own. These Wide Awakes–mostly working-class Americans in their twenties–became one of the largest, most spectacular, and most influential political movements in our history. To some, it demonstrated the power of a rising majority to push back against slavery. To others, it looked like a paramilitary force training to invade the South. Within a year, the nation would be at war with itself, and many on both sides would point to the Wide Awakes as the mechanism that got them there. In this gripping narrative, Smithsonian historian Jon Grinspan examines how exactly our nation crossed the threshold from a political campaign into a war. Perfect for readers of Lincoln on the Verge and TheField of Blood, Wide Awake bears witness to the power of protest, the fight for majority rule, and the defense of free speech. At its core, Wide Awake illuminates a question American democracy keeps posing, about the precarious relationship between violent speech and violent actions.

Greensboro History Museum, 130 Summit Ave., Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States

Find us at Guilford Native American Association's 47th Annual POW WOW

Learn more at https://www.guilfordnative.com/annual-pow-wow

Country Park, 3905 Nathanael Greene Dr., Greensboro, NC, 27455, United States

Find us at Greensboro Pride

Learn more at https://greensboropride.org/

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Little Lions Saturday in LeBauer Park

Discover Greensboro’s History through fun activities for Preschool and elementary age children and families in the LeBauer Park Children’s Garden! Little Lions Saturday in LeBauer Park is a partner program with Greensboro Downtown Parks.

LeBauer Park, 208 N. Davie St, Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States

Belle Meade Society Fall Dinner

The Greensboro History Museum’s Belle Meade Society will have its annual Fall Dinner at the museum on Monday, September 30th. The evening starts at 5:30 pm and includes dinner, wine and a presentation by former museum director, Bill Moore. As the museum turns 100 this f......More

The Greensboro History Museum’s Belle Meade Society will have its annual Fall Dinner at the museum on Monday, September 30th. The evening starts at 5:30 pm and includes dinner, wine and a presentation by former museum director, Bill Moore. As the museum turns 100 this fall, Bill will recount some of the highlights of his long forty-year tenure as director. Tickets are $45 per person for Belle Meade members. Please rsvp by Monday, September 16 at Purchase Your Tickets OnlineOr contact Carol Ghiorsi Hart at 336-373-2306. It isn’t too late to become a Belle Meade member, by upgrading your current membership or joining anew. We hope to see you!

Greensboro History Museum, 130 Summit Ave., Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States

Archaeology Day

Drop by the museum to dig into Archaeology Day with the Greensboro History Museum, UNC Greensboro Department of Archaeology and Guilford Courthouse National Military Park.  There will be fun activities and demonstrations for the whole family.

Greensboro History Museum, 130 Summit Ave., Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States

Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul

Join author Aran Shetterly and Executive Director of Human Rights at City of Greensboro, Dr. Love Jones, for a conversation about his new book,  MORNINGSIDE: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City’s Soul. The book compiles years of research a......More

Join author Aran Shetterly and Executive Director of Human Rights at City of Greensboro, Dr. Love Jones, for a conversation about his new book,  MORNINGSIDE: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City’s Soul. The book compiles years of research and is an intimate and heart-stopping account that draws upon survivor interviews, court documents, and the files from one of the largest investigations in FBI history. It explores some of the persistent mysteries of the case and the contradictions about race and class. Many in Greensboro remember the 1979 tragedy that divided our city, as well as its impact on the nation. On November 3, 1979, as activist Nelson Johnson assembled people for a march adjacent to Morningside Homes, gunshots rang out. A caravan of Klansmen and Neo-Nazis sped from the scene, leaving behind five dead. Known as the “Greensboro Massacre,” the event and its aftermath encapsulate the racial conflict, economic anxiety, clash of ideologies, and toxic mix of corruption and conspiracy that roiled American democracy then—and threaten it today. When the shooters are acquitted in the courts, Reverend Johnson, his wife Joyce, and their allies, at odds with the police and the Greensboro establishment, sought alternative forms of justice. As the Johnsons rebuilt their lives after 1979, they found inspiration in Nelson Mandela’s post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Martin Luther King Jr’s concept of Beloved Community and insist that only by facing history’s hardest truths can healing come to the city they refuse to give up on. A quintessentially American story, Morningside explores the courage required to make change and the evolving pursuit of a more inclusive and equal future. A book signing will follow the conversation. Books may be purchased at Scuppernong Books on Elm Street or at the program.

Greensboro History Museum, 130 Summit Ave., Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States

Speakeasy Night at the Museum: Roaring to 100

Speakeasy Night at the Greensboro History Museum kicks off our 100th anniversary as a vital community organization. Be part of a swell evening of jazz, cocktails, heavy hors d’oeuvres and razzmatazz, with a scavenger hunt, games and contests that evoke the spirit of the......More

Speakeasy Night at the Greensboro History Museum kicks off our 100th anniversary as a vital community organization. Be part of a swell evening of jazz, cocktails, heavy hors d’oeuvres and razzmatazz, with a scavenger hunt, games and contests that evoke the spirit of the 1920s. Tickets $50/person ($45/GHM Inc. members) + taxes & fees. Includes admission and drink ticket. Tickets on Sale Now!For more information email [email protected] or call 336-373-2043. Sponsorship opportunities available now! Be part of the festivities by supporting this event and our GHM 100 celebrations. Your contribution will help fund: A permanent display about the history of the Museum and its site.Engaging educational programs across 2025.A special exhibition arriving on the anniversary of the day the Museum’s doors first opened, November 11, 1925.Click below to learn more. See Opportunities Online or  Download Sponsorship Packet

Greensboro History Museum, 130 Summit Ave., Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States

Ghoulash! Unliving History and More

Get spooky with activities at the Museum’s LeBauer Park Terrace! Check back for more details.  Ghoulash! is an annual festival featuring fall and Halloween themed activities led by the Greensboro Youth Council (GYC) in partnership with Greensboro Downtown Parks Inc. Thi......More

Get spooky with activities at the Museum’s LeBauer Park Terrace! Check back for more details.  Ghoulash! is an annual festival featuring fall and Halloween themed activities led by the Greensboro Youth Council (GYC) in partnership with Greensboro Downtown Parks Inc. This is a family friendly event with most activities geared toward children 12 and under. Click here for more information. This year’s Ghoulash! festival takes place 2:30-5:30 pm

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