Joyner Library Special Collections is an invaluable resource for both students and researchers. The student workers here each have different roles that ensure the overall success of the library’s archives....
In honor of Native American Heritage Month, University Archives is curating an exhibit featuring the Neyuherú·kęʼ Wampum Belt from the Tuscarora Nation of New York and hosting a related educational...
Williamston residents, Frances Cathcart Johnston, and Margaret (Peggy) Cathcart McKenzie were among the 51 participants of the Edenton Tea Party of October 25, 1774. The two sisters were the issue...
It’s You’re walking slowly along the shore when a warm orange glow appears out of the corner of your eye. You turn and realize it’s a ship, but something’s wrong-...
Warning: This post contains graphic content that may be upsetting to some people. This post displays the Log Book of the Steamer “Cosmos” Trip from San Francisco, California to Ft....
This year we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Edenton Tea Party, an important display of female activism in eastern North Carolina. We hope you will join us in celebrating by...
Legacy of The Lost Colony is an exhibit that features a variety of objects and materials from Special Collections. These materials highlight how the story of the Lost Colony has...
Involved in criminal activity from an early age, Wood learned to gamble, fight, and make bootleg whiskey from his famed McCoy-Hatfield relations in West Virginia. In 1923, he entered Central...
With the upcoming Juneteenth holiday, we are reminded of the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of slavery in the United States. Though the proclamation went into effect in 1863, roughly...
Pictured are a fragment of a letter Rear Admiral Albert Parker Niblack wrote to his wife on their 15th wedding anniversary, 24 November 1918, and 6 photographs of Midway Island...