Patrick Cash Archives

Mar 08, 2023
  • Patrick Cash

Welcome John Dunning, our new Digital Archivist

We are very pleased to announce that John Dunning joined Manuscripts & Digital Curation as the new Digital Archivist on March 1.  In this role, he will manage a program...

Feb 27, 2023
  • Patrick Cash

Schlobin Selections #5: Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler

Over the next several weeks, we will be highlighting a select number of titles and authors from the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Established in...

Feb 21, 2023
  • Patrick Cash

New Special Collections Exhibits

Special Collections has two new exhibits currently on display. "Finding Safe Spaces During Segregation," curated by Head of North Carolina Collections Jennifer Daugherty, coincides with the traveling exhibition “Navigating Jim...

Feb 21, 2023
  • Patrick Cash

Schlobin Selections #4: Samuel R. “Chip” Delany, Jr.

Over the next several weeks, we will be highlighting a select number of titles and authors from the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Established in...

Feb 14, 2023
  • Patrick Cash

Schlobin Selections #3: The Sand of Mars by Sir Arthur C. (Charles) Clarke

Over the next several weeks, we will be highlighting a select number of titles and authors from the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Established in...

Feb 06, 2023
  • Patrick Cash

Schlobin Selections #2: Atlantida: (L’Atlantide) by Pierre Benoit, translated by Mary C. Tongue and Mary Ross

Over the next several weeks, we will be highlighting a select number of titles and authors from the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Established in...

Jan 30, 2023
  • Patrick Cash

Schlobin Selections #1: A House-Boat on the Styx: Being Some Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades by John Kendrick Bangs

Over the next several weeks, we will be highlighting a select number of titles and authors from the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Established in...

Jan 14, 2023
  • Fred Harrison

First Brick School for African Americans in North Carolina

Originally referred to as the “ Red Schoolhouse”, New Bern’s first public school for African Americans was established in the early 1870s.  When fire destroyed the initial wood-framed building in...

Jan 10, 2023
  • Kelly Spring

New Research Room Reservation System

Announcing our new system for research room reservations! No longer will you need to use three different online links feeling shook up like a game of Boggle. Instead, you’ll be...

Dec 07, 2022
  • Patrick Cash

National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day: Lloyd O. Johnson Papers, Manuscript Collection #677-021

Staff Pick: National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day Staff Person: Patrick Cash Collection: U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation Collection: Lloyd O. Johnson Papers, Manuscript Collection #677-021 As our nation pauses to commemorate...