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Each UNC campus has a local board of trustees that holds extensive powers over academic and other operations of its campus on delegation from the Board of Governors. UNC operates under an arrangement of shared governance that leverages the collective strengths of its campus chancellors and administrators, local boards of trustees, and the UNC President and Board of Governors. The University also honors the important traditional role of the faculty in the governance of the academy. This file inclueds policy memorandums, correspondence, Board of Governors Minutes, inauguration papers for President Friday and President Spangler, reports, statements, and proposals, as well as awards and publications.

[Amsterdam] : [J. and C. Blaeu], [1662]. 1 map : hand colored ; 38 x 49 cm. Scale [ca. 1:2,300,000] (W 86°--W 75°/N 38°--N 30°). Relief shown pictorially. Covers Atlantic Coast from Virginia to Florida. Prime meridian: [Ferro]. Bar scale above the neat line on the lower margin: Milliaria Germanica communia.From J. Blaeu's Atlas Maior, 1662. Cf. Burden, P.D. Mapping of North America. Includes decorative cartouche and coat of arms. Latin text on the reverse side. Contains elepant watermark. Date approximated.

This collection contains a journal (December 15, 1861-April 15, 1865) kept by Isaac Liscomb, Master (Commander) of the U.S. Brig Dragoon. Dragoon was a private merchant vessel (formerly called the Remington) leased or purchased by the Union Army for use in the Civil War. As part of General Burnside's fleet, the Dragoon was involved in the Battle of Roanoke Island. Liscomb kept detailed accounts of that battle and of the voyages the ship made during the Civil War to transport troops and supplies to ports including Port Royal and Folly Island (SC), Pensacola (FL), and Morehead City (NC).

Carte de la Carolina et Georgie Pour . . . (1773). This is the 2nd state of the map and it was included in Histoire Generale Des Voyages.... , published by Harrevelt and Changuion in Amsterdam in 1774. The map is black and white and minimal foxing. Watermark of a strasbourg bend with a fleur. Location: Vault.

This ca. 1942 map drawn by Berliner Lokalanzeiger and published in Berlin, Germany, documents the Pacific Theater during World War II. Noted are the regions controlled by the British, United States, and Japanese armed forces, the regions attacked by the Japanese, and distances within the Pacific Theater.

Personal files (1975-2000) for active North Carolina Democratic Party member and advocate for women Betty Speir, including correspondence, reports, agendas, minutes and memos pertaining to the equal rights amendment, the governor's crime commission, and state and local democratic party politics.

Broadside announcing the "Fugitive Slave Bill" of 1850. Passed by the Senate and House of Representatives and signed into law by President Millard Fillmore, the "Fugitive Slave Act" gave enslavers greater power in capturing freedom seekers, even those who had fled to free states.

Black and white panoramic aerial photograph (ca. 1941-1950) of Camp Lee (later name changed to Fort Lee) in Virginia. Reverse of photograph includes handwritten names with city and state addresses. Copyright is by W. R. Thompson and Co., Publishers, Richmond, Virginia.

Broadside announcing the "Fugitive Slave Bill" of 1850. Passed by the Senate and House of Representatives and signed into law by President Millard Fillmore, the "Fugitive Slave Act" gave enslavers greater power in capturing freedom seekers, even those who had fled to free states.

Includes Dr. Hunt's military records.

Records from the North Carolina Public Health Association includes newsletters, programs from meetings and conferences, minutes from governing council and executive committee, correspondence, memos, and adult health promotion treasurer's report books.

Collection consists of a photograph album with leather decorative cover belonging to James R. Coles, an African American who served in the U.S. Navy Reserve during World War II. Accompanying paperwork and insignia badges (1943-1944) indicates he was a motor machinist's mate and was appointed apprentice petty officer first class. The album contains mostly unidentified photographs of African American sailors in training, aboard a train, and with possible girlfriends and family. Two shots also depict the sailors with their white commanding officer. Also included are autograph pages that his fellow sailors signed and listed their home addresses.

Personal files (undated) of U.S. Naval Officers (USNA class of 1925) and former director of Naval history, including correspondence, notes, published articles and reviews, speeches, oral interview transcripts, clippings, an account of duty in the Asiatic Squadron, dedication programs, and miscellaneous.

These oral history interviews were conducted by Donald Y. Leggett in June 2020 as his final project of employment in the Chancellor's Office. They center around people's impressions of how East Carolina has filled underdog and alpha dog roles over time.

Papers (1942-1946, 1951, 1991), of U.S. Naval photo interpreter and intelligence officer, including memos, photographs, pamphlets, operations manuals, worksheets, maps, reports, and ephemera reflecting operations at Normandy, Cherbourg, Sicily, and Guam during World War II.