politics Archives

Feb 03, 2014
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Insight from an Englishman

Source: Jerome R. Worsley Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #1214 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison This page is from a piece of correspondence (June 27, 1953) that is part of the...

Apr 22, 2013
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Letter from President Richard Nixon

Source:  Robert Morgan Papers (#237) East Carolina Manuscript Collection Staff Person:  Dale Sauter Description:  Letter from President Richard Nixon thanking Robert Morgan, North Carolina Attorney General, for his support of...

Jan 22, 2013
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Nuclear Age

  Source: The Daily Reflector Image Collection East Carolina MC #741.28.f.45 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description:  Over seventy years ago, on December 2, 1942, the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was...

Jul 24, 2012
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Senator Sam Ervin

Source: Jack Holland Spain Papers, Manuscript Collection #1122 Staff Member: Nanette Hardison Description: This image from 1973 is a portrait of Senator Sam J. Ervin with a written note of appreciation...

Feb 01, 2012
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William Woods Holden Election Handbill

Source: Benjamin B. Winborne Papers #691-005, East Carolina Manuscript Collection Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: Today’s staff pick features an original handbill (circa 1868) promoting the election of William Woods...

Jan 06, 2011
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Watching the Vote Tally

Source:   Daily Reflector Negative Collection #741.33.b.4 Staff Person:  Martha Elmore Description:  In Greenville, N.C., before the era of quick electronic vote tabulations for election results,  people used to wait outside the Daily Reflector office...

Jul 17, 2009
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The Fugitive Slave Act Passed by, the Senate and House of Representatives September 12, 1850 & Approved by, President Millard Fillmore September 18, 1850

Source: The Fugitive Slave Act, East Carolina Manuscript Collection MB0001 (Miscellaneous Broadsides) Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: In the 1840's the Underground Railroad was very busy due to the 1842...

Jun 19, 2009
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Hoover Days Cart

Source: Guide to the Daily Reflector Negative Collection, ca. 1920-1967, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #741 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The image shown above (1951) is of two men in...

Jan 23, 2009
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Lawrence Douglas Wilder

Source: Preliminary Inventory of the Carroll H. Leggett Collection, 1970-1990, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #856 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama became the 44th President...

Oct 10, 2008
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John F. Kennedy Campaign Poster, circa 1960

Source: Joseph F. and Lala Carr Steelman Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #924 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: Today's staff pick is a John F. Kennedy campaign poster (circa 1960)...