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Past the Pipes Receives National Council on Public History’s Graduate Student Project Award

Eight second-year students in UNCG’s masters program in history and museum studies, received the National Council on Public History’s 2013 Graduate Student Project Award for their work on Past the Pipes: Stories of the Terra Cotta Community, an exhibition that opened in December at the Terra Cotta Museum in Greensboro. This exhibition received a large grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council in June of 2012. One such award is given annually.

Road Scholar Omar Ali presents "The Many Faces of Islam"

View this film clip of "The Many Faces of Islam," a Road Scholar presentation by Omar H. Ali, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, UNC Greensboro. Manzoor Cheema shot the lecture at the North Regional Library in Raleigh.

Council Chair Explains That Humanities Are a Necessity

The Humanities Are Essential

By Townsend Ludington

Amidst a culture addicted to the antics of celebrities real or fake, whether they are White House party crashers, wacky politicians, lionized (or maybe it's tigerized) athletes, or money magnates craving to make the next billion bucks, it is a pleasure to read an article such as "Humanities efforts net grants" in the Dec. 8 issue of The Herald-Sun.

NEH Chairman Visits North Carolina

In an event co-hosted by the Levine Museum of the New South and the Humanities Council, NEH Chairman Jim Leach visited NC as a fifth stop on his nationwide “Civility Tour.” Before his evening lecture at the Levine, Leach met with Humanities Council board members, staff, and project directors to hear their thoughts on the state of public humanities in NC. Full article.

New Harmonies in Our State

Be sure to pick up a copy of the February issue of Our State magazine to see the full lineup for Museum on Main Street's New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music.