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This finding aid pertains to the transcript of an oral history conducted by Dean Albertson in 1952. The original audio format of this material is owned by Columbia University and is housed at the Oral History Research Office, Columbia University.

Interviews of graduates of East Carolina who were the first in their family to attend and graduate from college.

In this oral history interview Gerald Prokopowicz discusses his experiences as a faculty member at East Carolina University and chair of the History Department as well as his early life, family background, education, and research.

This finding aid pertains to the transcript of an oral history conducted by Dean Albertson in the years of 1952-1953. The original audio format of this material is owned by Columbia University and is housed at the Oral History Research Office, Columbia University.

This finding aid pertains to the transcript of an oral history conducted by Dean Albertson in the years of 1953-1954. The original audio format of this material is owned by Columbia University and is housed at the Oral History Research Office, Columbia University.

In this oral history interview, Charles Coble discusses his career at East Carolina University, including as Dean of the College of Education, and at the UNC System Office.

Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of North Carolina (1822) reprint 1967

The papers and audiovisual materials of Dr. Karen Baldwin, a professor of English and Folklore at ECU.

Collection (1852-2014) includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, printed materials, and other items compiled by retired East Carolina University English professor emeritus Dr. Ralph Hardee Rives (1930-2016) relating primarily to the Hardee - Rives and related families of North Carolina and the United Kingdom, the history of Eastern North Carolina (especially Halifax County and the town of Enfield), the United Methodist Church in Eastern North Carolina, state and local and national politics, and his charitable and philanthropic interests. The earliest original documents cover the period from 1852 through the Civil War and World War I.

The collection includes various aspects of public health in North Carolina beginning in the early 20th century.

In this oral history, Rebecca Croom Fordham (1899-1983) describes attending East Carolina Teachers Training School (East Carolina University) in Greenville, North Carolina, especially during the 1918 flu epidemic; teaching in Lenoir County, N.C.; and her life in the 1920s during the land boom and subsequent bust in Florida.