News Stories By tjkosmer

It was fun posting the Weather PastCast a couple weeks ago, and we wanted to do another.  Last week was another really hot one in Raleigh, with record breaking highs on Tuesday (September 5,…

Special Collections staff thought it would be fun to travel back in time and highlight this week in Raleigh, N.C., weather from the past.  Here is a weather report from 100 years ago with…

Recently digitized from an large collection of archival publications on agriculture, the Special Collections Research Center presents a small collection of cookbooks originally created by North…

Special Collections has received a couple of grants/awards during the past few years that are allowing us to digitize more materials on agricultural history.  The projects were recently…

During the 1920s, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was a controversial and contested topic in the United States and North Carolina, as described in an online resource from the UNC-Chapel…

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s visit to Raleigh on 31 July 1966, during which he spoke at NC State's Reynolds Coliseum, has intrigued NC State English professor Jason Miller for several years…

During this 2021-2022 academic year, North Carolina State University's Student Government turns 100.  The student body passed a constitution in Feb. 1921 that created a "House" (the…

One hundred years ago, a dedication ceremony was held to lay the cornerstone for NC State University's Memorial Belltower.  The ceremony took place on 10 Nov. 1921, 3 years after the end of…

The Eta Omicron Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.  The chapter was established on 7 April 1971, making it the first African American Greek-…

One hundred years ago, Lucille Thomson enrolled at NC State in the fall 1921 semester.  She is the first woman known to have enrolled full time at the university.  

Originally…