Explore the library’s WWII exhibit

A message for former ECU Chancellor Leo Jenkins is one of the items displayed on the library’s fourth floor.

The exhibit, “In Their Footsteps: Exploring World War II Through Archival Records,” is available to view and featured on the library’s first, third and fourth floors. This exhibit, curated by Patrich Cash and John Dunning, aims to tell the story of the war from an American perspective via photographs, records, diaries, oral histories, film, posters and other artifacts.

The exhibit includes items related to the major battles and trials faced by prisoners of war, and local elements like life on the home front in eastern North Carolina. Stories of soldiers and sailors on the frontlines who served in the U.S. Army, Navy and Marine Corps are heavily featured through the materials on display.

More details are available in the exhibit-opening blog written by the curators.

Dunning is a digital archivist for East Carolina University Academic Library Services. Cash is manuscripts curator. They both work in the Special Collections division. Their colleague, conservator Larry Houston, assisted with installation of the exhibit.