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...
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...
In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, Joyner Library will host a new exhibit, In Their Footsteps: Exploring World War II Through Archival Records,...
Warning: The following content features accounts of war and human suffering. Content may be upsetting to some. Over the next year, in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the end of...
The late Mike Hamer, a Greenville personality, has a web presence with several folk music songs, YouTube videos, compositions, and articles written about him by his friends. Mike Hamer was well known throughout Greenville...
Historically, Women’s book clubs have been more than just gatherings to discuss literature. They have served as spaces for intellectual growth, community building, and even social activism. Joyner Library’s Special...