History Notes
53 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago -Listen in for conversations about the history of the Gate City and beyond. Museum staff talk to historians about events that shaped life in our city -- and to Greensboro’s own history makers.
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Investigating a Lynching: The Guilford County Remembrance Project Coalition
October 30, 2019 18:09 - 30 minutes - 28 MBThe National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, contains monuments for 800 counties and more than 4,000 African American lynching victims. Guilford County’s monument names Eugene Hairston, a 17-year-old from Kernersville, lynched near Greensboro in 1887. GHM Education Curator Rodney Dawson speaks with Theresa Hammond and Allison Spooner, volunteers with the Guilford County Remembrance Project Coalition who are investigating Hairston’s story. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...
First Year: Anna Allman on Teaching History
August 30, 2019 12:24 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MBWhat are the challenges and rewards for a new history teacher? Museum Education Specialist Catherine Johns and summer intern Kara Olds from Appalachian State University's Reich College of Education chat with Durham Public Schools teacher Anna Allman about her first year on the job. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Her Great War: Historian Lynn Dumenil on Women in WWI
August 14, 2019 19:35 - 28 minutes - 45.1 MBLest We Forget: WWI through the Eyes of Nine is ending its run at the museum on August 18. In this episode, GHM curator of community history Glenn Perkins talks with Lynn Dumenil, emeritus professor of history at Occidental College and author of The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I (2017) about the important role African American women played during wartime. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.