Patrick Cash Archives

Nov 10, 2021
  • Alston Cobourn
  • Patrick Cash

Heritage Hall Now Known as ECU Chronicles: Our History

The Heritage Hall website has been renamed ECU Chronicles: Our History. ECU Chronicles also has a new URL that reflects the website’s new name. Users can now find the website by visiting https://collectio.ecu.edu/chronicles. The new URL replaces...

Oct 28, 2021
  • Jennifer Daugherty
  • Patrick Cash

Halloween Hauntings from Special Collections

As the weather turns colder and the days grow shorter, the staff of Special Collections wanted to provide everyone a treat this Halloween by offering up an assortment of collections...

Aug 05, 2021
  • Patrick Cash

ECU Libraries hosts COVID-19 Collection Drive

Beginning on August 9th, ECU Libraries is sponsoring a COVID19 Stories - Community Collection Drive to raise awareness about the collection and encourage submissions from the local community. We are...

May 17, 2021
  • Alston Cobourn
  • Justin Borer

Electronic music video and audio recordings by Dr. Otto Henry

STAFF PICK: Electronic music video and audio recordings by Dr. Otto Henry STAFF PERSONS: Justin Borer and Alston Cobourn COLLECTIONS: Otto Henry Papers, UA90-64, University Archives In 1968, Dr. Otto Henry...

Jan 20, 2021
  • Patrick Cash

Invitations to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s First Presidential Inauguration Events, 1933

Invitations to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Presidential Inauguration Events, 1933 STAFF PERSON: Patrick Cash COLLECTION: Mary F. Howard Papers (#391)   The inauguration of the President of the United States...

Jan 18, 2021
  • Patrick Cash

ECU Honors The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963. The tragic death of the Reverend Dr....

Nov 14, 2020
  • Alston Cobourn
  • Patrick Cash

50 Years After: Remembering Marshall University’s 1970 Plane Crash

November 14, 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the November 14, 1970 football game between the Marshall University Thundering Herd and the East Carolina University Pirates. Directly following the game,...

Oct 19, 2020
  • Alston Cobourn

Join Us in Celebrating Archives Month!

October is Archives Month! This year, the Society of North Carolina Archivists has chosen the theme, “20th Century Health and Medicine.”  We invite you to check out Laupus Library’s blog...

Oct 12, 2020
  • Alston Cobourn
  • Patrick Cash

“The 1960s: The Concerts That Helped Desegregate ECU” by Our State magazine

  Our State magazine recently published an article, “The 1960s: The Concerts That Helped Desegregate ECU”, about performances by African American musicians at East Carolina during the late 1950s and...

Sep 14, 2020
  • Alston Cobourn
  • Joe Barricella
  • Justin Borer
  • Larry Houston

“Greenville in Reelife” Features 1941 Footage of Greenville, NC

Thanks to a 2019 National Film Preservation Foundation grant, we were able to restore and digitize “Greenville in Reelife,” which is a silent film recorded by Reelife Motion Pictures in...