About Our Exhibits

• Hephzibah Baptist Church: A Digital History Collaboration — Wednesday, Jun 4, 2025 11:47 am — In the fall of 2024, we were approached by Mary Kate Mauney, a Public History graduate student at UNC Greensboro, with an exciting research proposal involving the Hephzibah Baptist Church records. She wrote: “Freedom From, Freedom To” will be a digital history project and commemorative event that unveils the lives of 16 free people of […]

• Save the Dates! Spring Events in ZSR — Monday, Mar 3, 2025 3:13 pm — We have planned an event-filled spring– make sure to save the dates for these awesome library events! For more upcoming library events, check out our calendar or follow us on our social media channels! New Exhibit Fields of Fortune: North Carolina’s Legacy in Leaf and Labor (Feb.- Dec. 2025) March Opening Reception for “Fields of […]

• Roots and Recipes: Cookbooks in Special Collections that Explore African American Culinary Traditions — Wednesday, Feb 26, 2025 2:08 pm — > Featured in images: Kaiser, Inez Yeargan. Soul Food Cookery. Kansas City: Inez Kaiser & Associates, 1968. Harwood, Jim, and Ed Callahan. Soul Food Cook Book. Concord, CA: Nitty Gritty Productions, 1969. De Knight, Freda. A Date with a Dish: A Cook Book of American Negro Recipes. New York: Hermitage Press, 1948

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