Lynching in the American South Workshop
On June 12 and 13, the Community Histories Workshop will host “Lynching in the American South: A Workshop.” Led by Seth Kotch and Elijah Gaddis, the …
Building the Digital Archive
We started the Rocky Mount Mills Digital Archive as a way to gather together some of the thousands of archived items from the mill’s two …
Harvesting History in Rocky Mount
Harvesting History in Rocky Mount — An Experiment in Crowdsourcing Documents On February 25, 2017, twenty students from Professor Robert Allen’s AMST 275H (“Documenting Communities”) and …
Introducing CHW fellow Morgan Vickers
For the latest in our series on Community Histories Workshop fellows, we hear from Morgan Vickers, one of our inaugural undergraduate fellows.
Digital Loray project highlights
With the recent opening of the Alfred C. Kessell History Center in Gastonia, we’ve been reflecting on the years of collaborations between students, faculty, staff, …
The Life of Godwin Bush
The following is the first in a series of blog posts from Christina Kochanski, a Community Histories Workshop Undergraduate Fellow who is working on The Red …
Rocky Mount Mills Reunion
Watch the video below to learn more about our first preview of digital exhibits built in Prospect during the Rocky Mount Mills reunion on October …
CHW Fellow Introduction: Dani Callahan
This is the first in our series of posts chronicling some of the students, faculty, and other scholars that make up the Community Histories Workshop. …
Rocky Mount Mills and the City of Rocky Mount
On Friday, July 20th, 1920, The Evening Telegram of Rocky Mount, North Carolina published an article titled, “States Relation of Mill to City.” This article …