ECU Contributor Archives

Aug 19, 2020
  • Ralph Scott

Staff Pick: Pitt County Citizens Lined Up to Vote

Staff Person: Ralph Scott Collection: Daily Reflector Negative Collection ECU Manuscript Collection #0741-b26-fe-v26.e.3 August 18th is the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States...

Jul 16, 2020
  • ECU Contributor

Help us document the COVID-19 pandemic in eastern North Carolina

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected us all in both similar and different ways. East Carolina University Libraries are documenting the effects of COVID-19 on the lives of eastern North Carolina...

May 01, 2020
  • ECU Contributor

Check us out on The Academic Archivist Blog

  Check out our newish post on The Academic Archivist blog about the university’s efforts to holistically examine ECU’s past and present through our Heritage Hall digital project! The project...

Mar 27, 2020
  • ECU Contributor

What’s going on?

The Special Collections Division is temporarily closed along with Joyner Library due to the Covid-19 Virus Outbreak. East Carolina University is committed to keeping employees, students, and the public safe....

Mar 06, 2020
  • ECU Contributor

Special Collections Closed on March 10th

Due to Staff Development Day on March 10th, 2020, the Special Collections Reading Room and Service Desk will be closed. The North Carolina Collection Room will be open for public...

Feb 14, 2020
  • Dale Sauter
  • Martha Elmore

New Exhibit: “A look at New Bern’s Frederick C. Douglass, Pension Claims Agent, and African American Civil War Pension Ledgers” 

A new exhibit entitled, “A Look at New Bern’s Frederick C. Douglass, Pension Claims Agent, and African American Civil War Pension Ledgers” and curated by Dale Sauter and Martha Elmore is currently on...

Jan 22, 2020
  • Kelly Spring

Weighing Anchor

Commandeering a ship can be a complex, difficult, and risky business. As pirates you’d think we’d prefer our migration to be a hit-and-run raid of data and turn-key solutions. Not...

Dec 20, 2019
  • ECU Contributor

The Legend of the Christmas Flounder

Local history often borders on being folklore. Tales about events are told and retold until they take a life of their own. The stories can morph and transmogrify to the...

Dec 07, 2019
  • ECU Contributor

Staff Pick: Commander Frank Costagliola Recalls the Attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

This Saturday marks the 78th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, an event which resulted in the United States declaring war on Japan (December 8, 1941) and her ally...

Oct 31, 2019
  • Jennifer Overstreet

“We had to run for our lives” – The Halloween Riots of 1974 & 1975

If you read the East Carolinian, then you’ll have read today’s paper regarding downtown precautions for Halloween and the general notice to Greenville residents, visitors, and ECU students to celebrate...

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