CHW Attends the Black Communities Conference
The historic Carolina Theatre in Durham hosted the Black Communities Conference for three days from April 23-25. It was a multi-disciplinary conference hosted by The …
Teaching the Asylum: Health Humanities
Over spring semester 2018, the Community Histories Workshop partnered with Professor Jordynn Jack (Director of the English M.A. Program in Literature, Medicine, and Culture; and …
Supporting our colleagues at the NC Digital Heritage Center
From our first digitization efforts in Gastonia around the Digital Loray project in 2013 through our current work in the CHW, the NC Digital Heritage …
The Land & Rocky Mount Mills
The Rocky Mount Mills team recently published a historical narrative about the mill that considers how the environment shaped the town and industry of Rocky …
Work of CHW featured on UNC Home Page
The work of the CHW was highlighted on the landing page of the UNC website on April 2, 2018. Thanks to Kim Spurr of the …
College of Arts & Sciences Highlights CHW
We here at CHW are so pleased that UNC’s College of Arts & Sciences recently highlighted the work of Community Histories Workshop. An online article, “Capturing …
What is History’s Role in Transformative Renewal?
An early twentieth-century promotional booklet about Rocky Mount Mills in North Carolina boasts that the mill doesn’t owe its modern success to its past. “Though proud …
CHW Statement of Principles
Established in 2016, the Community Histories Workshop (CHW) works with local communities to recover, preserve, and share the memories, stories, and materials that reflect the …
The CHW Releases “Stories of the Mills”
The Community Histories Workshop would like to announce the release of Stories of the Mills, the first round of transcribed oral history interviews relating to …
