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...
The Ship’s Log
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...
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,...
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...
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...