News & Events
Happy 250th Birthday Jane Austen!
Jane Austen Birthday Tea Wednesday, December 10th, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Special Collections & Archives Research Room (ZSR Library Room 625) Join us for tea and snacks and a pop-up exhibit of Austen books!
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 […]
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 […]
Author and Researcher Chenita Johnson Book Talk and Reception
Chenita Johnson, Author of African American Firsts of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County, NC Book talk, Q&A, and reception Friday, February 20th, 4:00 p.m. Special Collections & Archives Research Room (ZSR Library Room 625) Join us to hear from researcher and author Chenita Johnson about her work on writing the book “African American Firsts of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County North…
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 […]
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