“The Spanish Influenza is Here” Exhibition
“The Spanish Influenza is Here” Exhibition 2018 marked the centennial anniversary of the deadly “Spanish Influenza.” Today we encounter flu season each year, but we often know little about previous...
The Ship’s Log
Chartplotting ECU’s Arrr-chivesSpace Migration
Chartplotting Wouldn’t it be nice to have turn by turn directions to find those vexing errors that you inherently know are in your legacy data? Sometimes charting exactly how to...
Arrr-chivesSpace Migration at East Carolina University
About the series: The East Carolina University Pirates are engaged in a large-scale migration project to evaluate, prep, and load data from several dispersed databases into ArchivesSpace. Over the next two years,...
Staff Pick: Remembering Pearl Harbor
Source: F. Warren VanWert Papers, 1941-1945 Staff Member: Nanette Hardison Description: On a Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, the navy base at Pearl Harbor was suddenly attacked by the...
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...
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...
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”....
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...
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...
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...