48 Titles on DigitalNC this week!
This week we have 48 titles up on DigitalNC! One of the newspapers added this week is The Holden Record. The short-lived Raleigh publication, solely dedicated to discrediting gubernatorial candidate W.W. Holden, was created by abolitionist and Raleigh Register co-publisher H.H. Helper. Holden went on to be elected governor, even though the paper painted him as a violent man and blamed him for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Holden took an anti-Klan stance and this tension led to the Kirk-Holden War. He served until 1871, was impeached, and charged on eight counts for alleged crimes committed during this time. While the impeachment was politically motivated due to his suppression of the Klan, he is still the only North Carolina governor to have been impeached.
Over the next year, we’ll be adding millions of newspaper images to DigitalNC. These images were originally digitized a number of years ago in a partnership with Newspapers.com. That project focused on scanning microfilmed papers published before 1923 held by the North Carolina Collection in Wilson Special Collections Library. While you can currently search all of those pre-1923 issues on
Newspapers.com, over the next year we will also make them available in our newspaper database as well. This will allow you to search that content alongside the 2 million pages already on our site – all completely open access and free to use.
This week’s additions are the following:
- North Carolina Times (New Bern, N.C.) – 1864-1865
- The Weekly Sentinel (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1867-1871
- The North Carolina Minerva and Fayetteville Advertiser (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1796-1799
- The North-Carolina Minerva and Raleigh Advertiser (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1799-1800
- The North-Carolina Minerva (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1800-1803
- Minerva; or Anti-Jacobin (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1803-1804
- The Minerva (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1804-1809
- Raleigh Register and North Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1823-1848
- The Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1848-1868
- The Weekly Republican (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1867
- The Holden Record (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1868
- North-Carolina Constitutionalist and States Rights’ Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1831
- The Era (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1874-1876
- The Carolina Era (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1872
- Tri-Weekly Era (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1872
- The Weekly Era (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1872-1874
- The Farmer and Mechanic (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1901-1908
- The Raleigh News (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1876
- The Raleigh Times (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1912
- The Weekly Raleigh Register and North Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1841-1852
- The Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1852-1868
- The Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1868-1886
- The Semi-Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1852-1863
- Raleigh Register and North-Carolina State Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1823-1825
- The Daily North-Carolina Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865
- The People’s Press and Wilmington Advertiser (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1833-1834
- Raleigh Times (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1848-1852
- Raleigh Republican (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1867-1874
- We Know (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1872
- Daily Advertiser (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1868
- The Semi-Weekly Record (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865
- The Daily Record (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865
- City and State (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1878
- The National (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1878
- The Evening Crescent (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1874
- Daily Evening Crescent (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1874
- The Whig Clarion (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1843-1844
- The Weekly News (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1869-1870
- The Hornets’ Nest (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1849-1850
- The Southern Mechanic (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1876
- The Ballot (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1886
- Purefoy’s Express (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1877
- The Journal-Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1883
- The Daily Carolina Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1869
- The Daily Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1869
- Christian Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1863-1870
- Newbern Weekly Times (New Bern, N.C.) – 1866
- North Carolina Guardian (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1867
If you want to see all of the newspapers we have available on DigitalNC, you can find them here. Thanks to UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries for permission to and support for adding all of this content as well as the content to come. We also thank the North Caroliniana Society for providing funding to support staff working on this project.