Over the course of my internship with ECU’s Manuscripts and Digital Curation department, I learned that there is a great deal of work that goes into hosting digital material in...
As a graduate student in the public history concentration, I am always looking for ways that the public interacts with history in its many forms. Working with ECU’s East Carolina...
For eighty years, the film Pitch a Boogie Woogie has occupied a unique place in North Carolina history. Produced in Greenville in 1947 and released the following year, it was...
When North Carolina’s Fifth Provincial Congress met in December of 1776, they established a new state Constitution, supporting the American resolve for independence. Notwithstanding, John Llewelyn, a substantial Martin County...
This spring the University History and Records and Digital Collections departments were able to digitize 24 audio reels that are part of the Records of the School of Communication in...
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...