Kevin Syers Archives

Nov 19, 2018
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Cooking for Thanksgiving in the 1950’s

  This photograph of a woman putting her Thanksgiving turkey in the oven was taken November 21, 1959, and comes from The Daily Reflector negative collection housed in Special Collections at...

Nov 12, 2018
  • Kevin Syers

World War I in the ECU Digital Collections

One hundred years ago, on “the 11th hour, on the 11th day, on the 11th month" of 1918, the armistice to end World War I fighting on the Western Front...

Nov 08, 2018
  • Alston Cobourn

East Carolina Native American Organization Exhibit

In honor of American Indian Heritage Month, University Archives has partnered with the East Carolina Native American Organization on an exhibit entitled “Recognizing Past and Present: North Carolina American Indians”....

Nov 06, 2018
  • Martha Elmore

Staff Pick: Letter from J. Edgar Hoover to Col. Alexander Bacon Coxe Sr.

Source: Alexander B. Coxe, Sr., Papers #193 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: Alexander Bacon Coxe, Sr., was a seasoned Army officer having served during the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, and...

Oct 30, 2018
  • Alston Cobourn

Meet the University Archivist: Alston Coburn

Hello!  I am Alston Cobourn, and I am proud to be East Carolina University’s new University Archivist as of July. I am from Raleigh and attended UNC-Chapel Hill where I...

Oct 09, 2018
  • Kevin Syers

Blackbeard Fact and Fiction Exhibition

  300 years after his death, people are still enthralled with the legend of Blackbeard. A new exhibition in the Special Collections Division, Blackbeard: Fact and Fiction, explores the evolution...

Oct 03, 2018
  • Linnea Vegh

Conservation Corner: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    When the two first edition copies of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in Joyner Library’s holdings came across my work bench a few months ago,...

Aug 14, 2018
  • Kevin Syers

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

                    Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin Rare PS2954 .U5 1853 v.1 Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), probably the preeminent...

Jul 02, 2018
  • Kevin Syers

Vietnam Era Letter

Source: William and Harry Whittaker Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #1293 Staff Member: Nanette Hardison Description: The image featured below is of a letter dated November 9, 1964 and is...

May 01, 2018
  • Kevin Syers

Chronology of Pitt County History

Source:  Chronology of Pitt County History, Joyner - NC Broadsides Staff Person:  Dale Sauter Description:  Today’s pick features "Chronology of Pitt County History,” a broadside by Jessamine Shumate.  Shumate was...