News & Events

  • Kingswood School Career Day — Friday, Jan 24, 2020 10:30 am — On Friday, November 15, Special Collections & Archives hosted a Career day for the K-5 students at the Kingswood School at Crossnore here in Winston-Salem. Tanya and I (Rebecca) have been meeting with Bianca Brown, the Instructional Facilitator at Kingswood School, over the past year to plan programming for the Kingswood School. For those who […]

  • Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies History Panel — Thursday, Jan 16, 2020 3:35 pm — Wednesday, March 18, 2020 ZSR Library Auditorium, Room 404, 4:00-6:00pm In honor of Women’s History Month there will be a Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies History Panel featuring founding faculty of the Women’s Studies department to discuss the creation and evolution of the program since the 1980s. Speakers will include Professors Mary DeShazer, Anne Boyle, […]

  • Exhibit and Opening Reception for Books, Authors, and Readers in 18th Century England — Wednesday, Jan 15, 2020 2:53 pm — An exhibit of materials from the Z. Smith Reynolds Library Rare Books Collection, designed by students from Dr. Jessica Richard’s Fall 2019 Eighteenth-Century British Fiction class Opening reception: Friday, January 24 4:00-5:00 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Exhibit Facebook Event|Reception Facebook Event | University Calendar Exhibit | University Calendar Reception

  • Hop Into History! Spring 2020 — Friday, Jan 10, 2020 11:35 am — HOP INTO HISTORY! Join us from 5-6:30pm at Hoots Beer Company for Hop into History! Chat with archivists from WFU, WSSU, FCPL, and Reynolda to learn more about what types of materials we have in our archives. HISTORY IS FOR EVERYONE!! The exhibit will be kid friendly, and we will have coloring pages for kids […]

  • Remembering Archie’s Poetry — Friday, Jan 10, 2020 11:31 am — The Ed and Emily Wilson Archie Ammons event will be held in Special Collections & Archives (Room 625, Z. Smith Reynolds Library) on January 26, 3:00-4:30. An afternoon of poetry and remembrances of the poet A.R. Ammons, whom everyone learned to call Archie, presented by Ed and Emily Wilson. Archie and his family spent the 1973-1974 school year at Wake Forest University, […]

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