Thanks to our partners at the Chatham County Historical Association, DigitalNC is pleased to announce that several new issues of the North Carolina Anvil are now available online! The North Carolina Anvil was a local paper published in Durham during the late twentieth century. It was advertised as an “alternative” paper with a progressive, anti-war perspective.

Now, four new issues from 1970 and 1983 have been added to NC Digital’s collection. They join a collection of over three hundred already-digitized issues, and extend NC Digital’s coverage of the publication by three years. Interested in reading about North Carolina politics weekly from an angle “combative to the point that it was difficult to survive financially” (according to contributor Barry Jacobs)? You can find the complete collection of newspapers here. Interested in more Chatham County history? Learn more about the Chatham County Historical Association here.