Luther H. Hodges, Jr. has been honored with the 2018 Charles Duncan McIver Award by UNC Greensboro. The award was presented to Hodges by Chancellor Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr. at the University Honors Ceremony on May 10 in the School of Music Recital Hall. An introduction to Hodges and his legacy of public service was…
Category: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives
God’s Trombones: African American Cadences and Culture
“I’ll Make Me a World”: James Weldon Johnson’s God’s Trombones in the African American Poetic Tradition Exhibit by Noelle Morrissette will be on display in the Hodges Reading Room of UNCG Special Collections and University Archives on the second floor of Jackson Library March 12-16, 2018, from 9 am – 5 pm. The exhibit is…
Spring 2018 Diversity Lecture Will Feature Randall Burkett
Please join us on March 15, 2018 at 10 a.m. for “Books, Boxes and Bangles: Building Research Collections in African American History and Culture,” by Randall Burkett. The event will be held in the Hodges Reading Room of Jackson Library on the second floor. Randall Burkett started collecting books to support his research on Marcus Garvey…
Suzanne Sawyer Joins the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA)
On August 21, University Libraries welcomed Suzanne Sawyer as the new Library Technician in Preservation Services.Sawyer earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Art Education from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Book Arts from The University of Alabama. Prior to joining University Libraries, Sawyer was an Assistant Book and…
Thoreau’s Reflections on New England: Nature, History, Place
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the author Henry David Thoreau. The department of Special Collections and University Archives at UNC Greensboro’s University Libraries has teamed up with local bookman Richard Levy to mount an exhibit featuring first edition copies of all of Thoreau’s published books. This is a unique opportunity…