October 2019 Archives

Oct 31, 2019
  • Jennifer Overstreet

“We had to run for our lives” – The Halloween Riots of 1974 & 1975

If you read the East Carolinian, then you’ll have read today’s paper regarding downtown precautions for Halloween and the general notice to Greenville residents, visitors, and ECU students to celebrate...

Oct 21, 2019
  • Patrick Cash

Staff Pick: The 10 Demands and ECU Student Activism

Collection: Records of Leo Warren Jenkins' Tenure as President and Chancellor, 1960-1978 (University Archives Collection #UA02-06) Staff Person: Patrick Cash In honor of Archives Month and this year’s theme of...

Oct 07, 2019
  • Dale Sauter

Staff Pick: The School Room Against the Bar Room

The School Room Against the Bar Room Collection: James Yadkin Joyner Papers (Manuscript Collection #345)  Staff Person: Dale Sauter Today’s staff pick features a broadside (circa 1919) entitled “The School...

Oct 04, 2019
  • Kelly Spring

Arr-chives Space Update #6: Ready About!

We pirates have been busy in the past few months. Our scallywag data is in ArchivesSpace, 95% of our digital objects are reconciled to the finding aids, our authorities database...