In September, Downtown Durham launced The Streetery! Through the Streetery, DDI will be opening multiple streets in downtown to pedestrian traffic with festive lights, music and performers sprinkled throughout. It is DDI’s way of welcoming folks to a safer, socially distanced,… Read More
Just in time for the holiday season, we have launched a new social-distance friendly exhibit right outside our front door. With generous support from Durham Merchants Association Charitable Foundation, Faces of Durham features a selection of familiar and lesser known faces from the Bull City’s past and present. The exhibit… Read More
Street Historian and History Advisory Committee member John Schelp was recently featured on an episode of UNC-TV’s North Carolina Weekend! Check it out: Courtesy of UNC-TV By John Schelp, History Advisory Committee, Museum of Durham History Take a look in your closet. Just about all of us have them: blue… Read More
This guest blog was contributed by Jim Wise, Durham Historian and former MoDH board member. It may have been a Durham Morning Herald headline, “City Proposes Dam on Eno,” or words to that effect. It may have been a chemical spill that produced an odiferous fish kill near her riverside… Read More
This guest blog, originally published in 2016, was contributed by Dr. Charles Johnson, Director of Public History and Assistant Professor of History, North Carolina Central University. Judge Carolyn Lucille Denton Johnson was born January 16, 1931 in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was the only child of Earl… Read More
Due to the Museum of Durham History’s closure during the COVID-19 pandemic, we have transitioned to online programming, including the opening event for our Votes for Suffrage: 100 Years of Women in Durham Politics exhibit. We were pleased to have about 50 attendees sign on for the Friday… Read More
Written by Kay Waller, North Carolina State University, Public History MA Student I have had the privilege of working alongside Jeanette Shaffer and the Museum of Durham History’s events committee in planning programming and community engagement activities for the Votes for Suffrage: 100 Years of Women in Durham Politics digital exhibit. Read More
Have you ever wondered how you could be a part of an exhibit? Votes for Suffrage: 100 Years of Women in Durham Politics is coming to the Museum of Durham History on Sept. 18 and you can help make it happen. The museum… Read More
This year marks the centennial anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, giving women in the United States the right to vote. The Museum of Durham History would like to say congratulations and commemorate this event by formally announcing our next exhibit Votes for Suffrage: 100 Years of Women in… Read More
The Museum of Durham History and Durham County Library are partnering to host a four-part, live-streaming web series that captures today’s issues, framed in the context of Durham’s history. Tune in to the Library’s Zoom webinar or the MoDH’s Facebook Live page Tuesdays at 1PM on July 21 and 28,… Read More