The Ship’s Log

Mar 10, 2023
  • Patrick Cash

Schlobin Selections #6 A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Schlobin Selections #6 A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin Over the next several weeks, we will be highlighting a select number of titles and authors from the...

Mar 08, 2023
  • Patrick Cash

Welcome John Dunning, our new Digital Archivist

We are very pleased to announce that John Dunning joined Manuscripts & Digital Curation as the new Digital Archivist on March 1.  In this role, he will manage a program...

Mar 01, 2023
  • Daniel Ferkin

Welcome!

We are pleased to announce that Daniel Ferkin joined the University History & Records department on February 13th as our new Assistant University Archivist. Previously Daniel worked as the Holston...

Feb 27, 2023
  • Patrick Cash

Schlobin Selections #5: Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler

Over the next several weeks, we will be highlighting a select number of titles and authors from the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Established in...

Feb 21, 2023
  • Patrick Cash

New Special Collections Exhibits

Special Collections has two new exhibits currently on display. "Finding Safe Spaces During Segregation," curated by Head of North Carolina Collections Jennifer Daugherty, coincides with the traveling exhibition “Navigating Jim...

Feb 21, 2023
  • Patrick Cash

Schlobin Selections #4: Samuel R. “Chip” Delany, Jr.

Over the next several weeks, we will be highlighting a select number of titles and authors from the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Established in...

Feb 14, 2023
  • Patrick Cash

Schlobin Selections #3: The Sand of Mars by Sir Arthur C. (Charles) Clarke

Over the next several weeks, we will be highlighting a select number of titles and authors from the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Established in...

Feb 06, 2023
  • Patrick Cash

Schlobin Selections #2: Atlantida: (L’Atlantide) by Pierre Benoit, translated by Mary C. Tongue and Mary Ross

Over the next several weeks, we will be highlighting a select number of titles and authors from the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Established in...

Jan 30, 2023
  • Patrick Cash

Schlobin Selections #1: A House-Boat on the Styx: Being Some Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades by John Kendrick Bangs

Over the next several weeks, we will be highlighting a select number of titles and authors from the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Established in...

Jan 14, 2023
  • Fred Harrison

First Brick School for African Americans in North Carolina

Originally referred to as the “ Red Schoolhouse”, New Bern’s first public school for African Americans was established in the early 1870s.  When fire destroyed the initial wood-framed building in...