Records of the College of Arts and Sciences: Records of the Department of History
1963-2022
University Archives #UA25-02- Creator(s)
- Physical description
- 40 Cubic Feet, 0.427 Gigabytes
- Preferred Citation
- [Item description]. Records of the Department of History. UA25-02, Box [number]. University Archives, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
- Repository
- East Carolina University Archives
- Access
- Access to original audiovisual and digital media is restricted. Please contact Special Collections for more information.
This collection contains the administrative records for the East Carolina Department of History. Record types include annual reports, minutes, course proposals, reports, curriculum proposals, correspondence, lecture series, oral histories, publications, student work, and Phi Alpha Theta documentation.
Biographical/historical information
East Carolina University offers undergradate and graduate degrees in History. There are courses related to United States, European, Public, Military, Atlantic World, and Maritime History.
The Eastern Carolina Alumni Association of Phi Beta Kappa was originally organized by East Carolina University faculty who had been inducted into PBK. The organizing faculty then invited PBK faculty, staff, and community PBK members from eastern North Carolina to join. For many years, Dr. Sylvie Henning served as president, Dr. Heather Reis, as treasurer, and Drs. Charles Ewen, Richard Ericson, Brian Harris, and Angela Thompson, as active members who helped organize association activities. Dr. Henning retired in 2013 and Dr. Thompson took over as president. Each year the organization honored 20 to 30 seniors with the highest GPA in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences at a recognition ceremony. Students invited parents and friends and their departments chairs to the ceremony and reception. The association held this ceremony until 2017 when the membership had decreased through retirements and deaths to the point that the organization could no longer function for lack of personnel and financial resources. Thus in 2019 the few remaining active faculty decided to disband the organization.
Scope and arrangement
This collection contains the administrative records for the East Carolina Department of History. Record types include annual reports, minutes, course proposals, reports, curriculum proposals, correspondence, lecture series, oral histories, publications, student work, and Phi Alpha Theta documentation.
Administrative information
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This collection is a part of Records of the College of Arts and Sciences.
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This file contains digital files of final exams students completed for Helen Dixon's spring 2020 HIST 3993: Approaches to Historical Objects course. Students were asked to propose a collecting and care plan for ECU to document COVID-19 experiences, with the following components: photographs and descriptions of four objects or documents, suggestions for three types of items that should be collected, and a plan for their care. These assignments can be viewed on our Documenting COVID-19 in Eastern North Carolina website.