newspapers Archives

Nov 22, 2019
  • Zachary Dale

Staff Pick: Foundations of LGBTQ Students Organizing at East Carolina University

Collection: East Carolina University Campus Newspapers. UA50-05. University Archives, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.Staff Person: Zachary Dale This month’s staff pick covers the series of anonymous letters that sparked the...

Oct 31, 2019
  • Jennifer Overstreet

“We had to run for our lives” – The Halloween Riots of 1974 & 1975

If you read the East Carolinian, then you’ll have read today’s paper regarding downtown precautions for Halloween and the general notice to Greenville residents, visitors, and ECU students to celebrate...

Jul 19, 2019
  • Jennifer Daugherty

50 Years Ago: Summer School Legislature Passes Space Resolution

  Fifty years ago on July 20th, 1969, the first person walked on the moon. Apollo 11's landing and the subsequent moon walk was the culmination of over a decade...

Mar 01, 2018
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Detachment 600 at East Carolina

East Carolina and the AFROTC   Source: Records of the Air Force ROTC Program Joyner Library Special Collections, University Archives #UA25-15. Digitized version available online in Joyner Library’s Digital Collections....

Oct 31, 2017
  • Jennifer Daugherty

The Life of Senator Robert Morgan

Source: Robert Morgan Papers #268 Staff Person: Sherry Cortes Description: Senator Robert Morgan was a North Carolina native, born and raised in Lillington, N.C.  This collection contains personal papers, Senatorial documents,...

Apr 10, 2013
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Talking Trash Can in Downtown Greenville

Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection, Manuscript Collection #741 Staff Person: Maury York Description: The City of Greenville in 1958 used talking trash cans to encourage residents to keep streets and...

Oct 16, 2012
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Father Maurice Tew and Children, 1961

Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection East Carolina Manuscript Collection #741.26.a.7 Staff Person: Maury York Description: Father Maurice Tew came to Greenville from West Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1935 to assist the...

Sep 25, 2012
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Pitt County Bookmobile

Source: Daily Reflector Image Collection (East Carolina Manuscript Collection #741.10.e.14) Staff person: Matt Reynolds Description: This is an image of Pitt County's second bookmobile from the spring of 1956.  Essentially operating as...

Jun 26, 2012
  • Jennifer Daugherty

The New Era: Washington, N.C. Occupied March 1862

Source: North Carolina Collection (Uncataloged Rare Materials) Staff Person:     Fred W. Harrison  Description:      War officially reached the port town of Washington in March 1862, with the arrival of Federal troops escorted...

Jan 17, 2012
  • Jennifer Daugherty

The Lost Children a poem by Randall Jarrell

  Source: #1169.5 Wright Collection/ Randall Jarrell Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection Staff Person: Lynette Lundin  Description:  The Randall Jarrell Papers are dated 1913 to 1989. The manuscript collection includes...