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Collaborative Bookmaking: Finding New Ways to Tell a Family’s History
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Piedmont Environmental Alliance Earth Day Fair 2026
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Exploring the Life and Legacy of Lunsford Lane: A Two-Day Lecture Series with Craig Thompson Friend
Join historian Craig Thompson Friend, Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor of History and Public History at North Carolina State University, Samuel T. Gladding Fellow, and a Wake Forest University alumnus (’83), for a special two-day exploration of the remarkable life of Lunsford Lane, the self-emancipated entrepreneur and author whose story challenges and enriches our understanding of... Continue reading “Exploring the Life and Legacy of Lunsford Lane: A Two-Day Lecture Series with Craig Thompson Friend” ›
It’s a Complicated World: Telling the Story of Wake Forest in the 21st Century – WF Historical Museum Board Annual Meeting Presentation
The following is the November 9 keynote presentation I gave for the annual meeting of the Wake Forest Historical Society Board: “It’s a Complicated World: Telling the Story of Wake Forest in the 21st Century” “As a brief introduction – and to give a little context for my presentation today – Special Collections & Archives... Continue reading “It’s a Complicated World: Telling the Story of Wake Forest in the 21st Century – WF Historical Museum Board Annual Meeting Presentation” ›
The American Revolution, The Biblical Recorder and a Country Church
Having begun publication 60 years after the American Revolution, the Biblical Recorder still had that momentous event as a fresh memory. Veterans of the fight for independence were elderly men in church congregations across the state of North Carolina. So it is not surprising that references to the war often occurred in its print but... Continue reading “The American Revolution, The Biblical Recorder and a Country Church” ›
Author and Researcher Chenita Johnson Book Talk and Reception
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The Biblical Recorder and an Origins Story
The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina was organized in 1830; among its founders were the future first president of Wake Forest College Samuel Wait and Thomas Meredith, the first editor of the Biblical Recorder, the convention’s voice in print since 1835. For 190 years now, the Biblical beliefs, church practices, and struggles of the... Continue reading “The Biblical Recorder and an Origins Story” ›