My internship with the Manuscripts & Digital Curation Department was a requirement for my concentration in public history, but this was something that I was excited to do. I did...
Housed within the walls of Joyner Library’s Special Collections in the Sallie Joyner Davis Collection is a collection of currency from some of the most turbulent times of our nation’s...
As both a history and anthropology major, I’ve spent hundreds of hours studying the past. However, during my time as an intern in the Manuscripts & Digital Curation Department, working...
Updated Special Collections Research Room Procedures Need to use a rare book or any of our archival materials for research? We’ve recently made some changes that you’ll need to know!...
University History and Records’s new exhibit features items from our collection to celebrate National Poetry Month this upcoming April. We are highlighting the poetry of former East Carolina faculty, particularly Julia Fields, Julie Fay, Peter Makuck, and Vernon Ward, and the poetry journals published here, including the North Carolina Literary Review, The...
On Friday, October 24th, Girl Scout Cadette Troop 786 visited Special Collections to earn their bookbinding badge! Troop members enjoyed making zines about the history of “Women & The Book”,...
University History and Records is celebrating Archives Month and the Society of North Carolina Archivists’ theme “North Carolina’s 250th,” which celebrates the different peoples of North Carolina and their history. ...
By Alissa Thompson, History Major, East Carolina University I started working with the University History and Records department at Joyner Library as an intern during the summer of 2025 as...
We are excited to announce the opening of a new exhibit about the 100-year history of our student-run campus newspaper, currently named The East Carolinian. This exhibit was curated collaboratively...
On June 2nd, 2025, former East Carolina University chancellor Richard Ronald Eakin passed away at the age of 86. Eakin served as chancellor from 1987 to 2001, and his work largely...