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This photograph was taken at Old Salem Museums and Gardens during the summer of 2007. The photograph was taken by Susan Ball, the Five Yesterdays program director at Old Salem. The three costumed interpreters are the three assistants at Five…

In this photograph from the University Archives Photograph Collection, two Reserve Officers' Training Corps students view an American Civil War exhibit at D. H. Hill Library in 1960, roughly one hundred years after the presidential election of 1960,…

The Faculty Council at North Carolina State was established in 1923 and served as an advisory board for the College President. In 1936, the Faculty Council was involved in investigating the controversy over the football program at NC State.

Bob McDonnell, the governor of Virginia, set himself in the middle of a category-5 media storm the last couple weeks as a result of his proclamation declaring April 2010, "Confederate History Month." Despite the long record of months celebrating the…

This item is the script to the theatrical portion of the State's Mates April 1960 variety show, "The Backyard Minstrels." Members of State's Mates portrayed racist caricatures of African Americans in blackface. The use of exaggerated dialect,…

This poem, containing the "philosophy" of State's Mates, was printed on the interior of each yearbook.

This article first appeared in The Raleigh Times during the 1960-1961 school year. It discusses the rationale for State's Mates as an organization and discusses the year's planned activities.

This brief, unidentified article discusses the State's Mates charitable project for the 1961-1962 year.

This document is a flyer for the State's Mates variety show in March of 1962.

This logo appeared at the top of each issue of the Wagg'n Tongue, the monthly newsletter for State's Mates