May The Fourth Be With You! When George Lucas’s original Star Wars, retroactively titled Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, premiered in limited theaters on May 25, 1977,...
Staff Person: Patrick Cash Collection: Oral History Collection: Charles E.Davis Oral History, University Archives #UA95-20 In celebration of Black History Month, Special Collections at East Carolina University will be doing...
As our nation pauses to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor and honors the memories of the 2,403 Americans who were killed, as well as the...
The Heritage Hall website has been renamed ECU Chronicles: Our History. ECU Chronicles also has a new URL that reflects the website’s new name. Users can now find the website by visiting https://collectio.ecu.edu/chronicles. The new URL replaces...
As the weather turns colder and the days grow shorter, the staff of Special Collections wanted to provide everyone a treat this Halloween by offering up an assortment of collections...
Invitations to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Presidential Inauguration Events, 1933 STAFF PERSON: Patrick Cash COLLECTION: Mary F. Howard Papers (#391) The inauguration of the President of the United States...
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963. The tragic death of the Reverend Dr....
November 14, 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the November 14, 1970 football game between the Marshall University Thundering Herd and the East Carolina University Pirates. Directly following the game,...
Our State magazine recently published an article, “The 1960s: The Concerts That Helped Desegregate ECU”, about performances by African American musicians at East Carolina during the late 1950s and...
The Thanksgiving holiday on the campus of East Carolina is much different today than it was in years past. As students, faculty, and staff prepare to spend their holidays with...