Arts & Humanities

A guidebook by three authors with ties to the N.C. Botanical Garden is one of 19 books to win in 2019.  

The Jackson Center, now in its 11th year, preserves the future of the town’s oldest, and historically black, neighborhoods. 

For almost a decade, Susan Harbage Page walked the U.S.-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley, photographing and collecting objects that border-crossers left behind. The objects told her powerful stories about hope and heartache. And they implored her to bear witness.

As the culminating event of its Mozart on the Moon series, UNC Opera will perform "Scipio’s Dream" in Hill Hall’s Moeser Auditorium on Nov. 16 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 17 at 3 p.m.

The College of Arts & Sciences is sponsoring programming, and in spring 2020, courses to better understand these troubling topics.

The upcoming 1619 Collective Memory(ies) Symposium, said Stone Center Director Joseph Jordan, is “an opportunity to grapple with the inherent complexities and contradictions of the American experience.”

“It’s important to look at history as a blueprint for where we go next. The past is still speaking, and it’s speaking loud,” said Jaki Shelton Green.

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns’ research team looked at thousands of digitized images across multiple collections that document the country music industry.

Co-edited by a creative writing professor and an undergraduate student, a chapbook celebrates 25 years of Southern Cultures quarterly.