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Love all things EWU? Take a look at these samples of newly digitized historic EWU content hosted on our Archives & Special Collections YouTube channel. For you nature lovers, check out the footage of Yellowstone and Glacier National Park from the 1930s, featuring appearances by Griz Leigh Bear and a polar bear plunge into a…

On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guard members were called to keep the peace at Kent State University during a student demonstration protesting bombing in Cambodia during the Vietnam War. Tragically, four unarmed protesters were shot when the National Guard tried to break up the protest. The day after the shooting, anti-war rallies erupted on…

A group of men gathered at a United States Forest Service station near Winthrop, Washington to test a theory. Was it practical to deliver trained wildland fire fighters and their equipment via air? Smokejumping was born from these experiments. The Eastern Washington University Libraries, through a partnership with the National Smokejumper Association, is pleased to host the Smokejumper Digital Archive, which contains…

In September 2018, EWU alumnus Seth Dryden offered EWU Archives the opportunity to digitally preserve his collection of EWU football programs dating back to 1941. Needless to say, we took him up on his generous offer, creating a collection of football programs available through the EWU Libraries’ digital collections website. The collection features many notable…