Women Served as Nurses during World War I
Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Collection: Sarah Bunn Collection, #1277 Nurses cape from World War I On Veterans’ Day, it’s important to recognize the many women who broke barriers serving...
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Staff Pick: Jerry Raynor, Daily Reflector Editor and Writer
Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Collection: Jerry Raynor Papers, Manuscript Collection #724 Jerry Raynor (1926-1992) was a Williamston, N.C. native who became the writer and editor of the Greenville...
Friendship
In the book, The Prophet, author Kahlil Gibran writes about friendship saying, “Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with...
Alex L. Manly (1866-1944)
Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Collection: Alex L. Manly Papers 1898-1903, 1953-1984, Manuscript Collection #65 Alexander Lightfoot Manly was born on May 13, 1866, near Raleigh, North Carolina. He was...
D-Day Commemoration of an Eastern North Carolina Hero: John Epps Teel in World War II
75 years ago today, on June 6, 1944, over 156,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, in the offensive to repel the German forces from France. Codenamed Operation...
Staff Pick: JFK Recording
Source: John F. Kennedy Presidential Campaign Rallies at ECC and NCSU, Audio and Video Recordings, UA60, UA28.04, UA65 Staff: Justin Borer and Alston Cobourn Description: John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) served...
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...
Senator Robert Morgan – An Update
Since the last post on Senator Morgan, we have completed the actual processing of the entire collection. Now we are performing conservation and digitization work with the assistance of Larry...
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,...
World War I
Source: Emil Gorling Papers 1200.1 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: Emil Görling, a German solider during World War I, was a member of the Aufraumungs-Arbeit (literally translated as the "clean-up" crew)...