politics Archives

Postcards of President & Mrs. William H. Taft in Inauguration Parade & Departure of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt, March 4, 1909

Source: William E. Elmore Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #39 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: These postcard images depict the departure of President Theodore Roosevelt's carriage from the White House...

Joseph Hewes, Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Source: Brownrigg Family Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #597 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: The image is of a legal document sworn to by Joseph Hewes in May 1761. He...

Jesse Helms

Source: David B. Stevens Papers, 1943-1946, 1973-1988, undated; East Carolina Manuscript Collection #779 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: Jesse Helms (1921-2008) was a five-term U.S. Senator from North Carolina and...

Dig We Must ! – Into the Coal Operators’ Profits!

Source: Dig We Must! - Into the Coal Operators’ Profits!, Hoover HD8039.M615 D5 1970 Staff Person: Maury York Description: With the approach of May Day, the Special Collections Department features...

Telegram from Lyndon B. Johnson to Capus M. Waynick July 1, 1964

Source: Capus Miller Waynick Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #421 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: Today, April 4th, 2008, marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King,...

Clarence Leroy Shuping Letter

Source: Guide to the Clarence Leroy Shuping Papers, 1920-1975, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #553 Staff Person: Maury York Description: Letter of Clarence Leroy Shuping concerning Franklin D. Roosevelt's Campaign in...

Capus Waynick and Anastasio Somoza

Source: Guide to the Capus Miller Waynick Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #421 Staff Person: Maury York Description: This photograph from the Capus Miller Waynick Papers in the East Carolina...

Constitutional Education League

Source: Vote CIO and Get a Soviet America, Hoover E812 K36 1944 Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: The Constitutional Education League was founded shortly after World War I to combat...

Joseph McCarthy

Source: The Red-Addled Brain Behind the Scripps-Howard Smear of Joseph McCarthy, Hoover Pamphlet, E748.M143 K36 1954 Staff Person: Maury York Description: This pamphlet by Joseph P. Kamp denounces efforts by...

May Day: 1938 for Democracy, Jobs, Security, Peace!

Source: May Day: 1938 for Democracy, Jobs, Security, Peace!, Hoover Pamphlet HX86.M34 1938 Staff Person: Maury York Description: This pamphlet, published by the Workers Library Publishers (New York) in 1938,...