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...
Patrick Cash Archives
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...
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...
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...
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....
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,...
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...
“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...
“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...
Update to the East Carolina University Heritage Hall URL
Recently, the Heritage Hall website transitioned to a new platform, so it has a new URL: https://collectio.ecu.edu/heritagehall/. This new URL replaces the old site at https://lib.ecu.edu/heritagehall. While Joyner Library’s Application & Discovery Services staff...