Here we have new papers from the North Carolina Collection that have never been microfilmed! The North Carolina Collection originated in 1844 and is the largest traditional collection of library materials for any state. Learn more about the NCC here!

These additions include:

• The Courier (Asheboro, N.C.) – 1917-1918
• The Randolph Herald (Asheborough, N.C.) – 1848
• The Daily Advance (Asheville, N.C.) – 1884
• The Mountain Voice (Bakersville, N.C.) – 1881
• Our Fatherless Ones (Barium Springs, N.C.) – 1903-1912
• The Blowing Rocket (Blowing Rock, N.C.) – 1942
• The Chapel Hillian (Chapel Hill, N.C.) – 1890-1891
• The Clarkton Express (Clarkton, N.C.) – 1907
• Recorder and North Carolina Tobacco Journal (Durham, N.C.) – 1883
• The Daily News (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1865
• Goldsboro Daily Argus (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1889-1892
• The Eastern Reflector (Greenville, N.C.) – 1898
• The Henderson Times (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1863
• The Western North Carolina Times (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1896
• The Daily Free Press (Kinston, N.C.) – 1908-1909
• The Laurinburg Enterprise (Laurinburg, N.C.) – 1881
• The Monroe Enquirer (Monroe, N.C.) – 1875-1881
• Ocracoke Island Beacon (Ocracoke, N.C.) – 1941
• The Orphans’ Friend and Masonic Journal (Oxford, N.C.) – 1881-1912
• The Church Intelligencer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1862-1865
• The Menagerie (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1857
• The Farmer and Mechanic (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1877
• The Friend and Templar (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1880
• Semi-Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865
• The Star, and North-Carolina State Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1818
• The Reidsville Times (Reidsville, N.C.) – 1882
• The Roanoke-Chowan Times (Rich Square, N.C.) – 1907-1910
• The Rockingham Rocket (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1887
• Salisbury Evening Post (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1906
• The Daily Union Banner (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1866
• Shelby Review (Shelby, N.C.) – 1893
• The Sandhill Citizen (Southern Pines, N.C.) – 1917
• The Daily Landmark (Statesville, N.C.) – 1879
• The Wadesboro Intelligencer (Wadesboro, N.C.) – 1886
• The Dew Drop (Wadesborough, N.C.) – 1853
• The Colonist (Warm Springs, N.C.) – 1870-1871
• The Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1908
• Wilmington Chronicle (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1849
• The Wilmington Herald (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1854-1855
• Wilmington Journal (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1880-1894

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.

This week we have almost 30 newspaper titles added to DigitalNC. These titles include a Raleigh paper about agriculture and it’s “kindred arts,” an employee paper for North Carolina shipbuilders during World War II, and plenty of others from Wilmington, Raleigh, and New Bern!

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:

• The North-Carolina Gazette (New Bern, N.C.) – 1751-1774
• Wilmington Gazette (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1816
• The Newbernian (New Bern, N.C.) – 1849-1853
• The Daily Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1871-1872
• The Daily Era (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1872-1873
• The Carolina Era (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1871
• The Farmer and Mechanic (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1899
• New Berne Times (New Bern, N.C.) – 1873
• The People’s Press and Wilmington Advertiser (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1835-1841
• The Daily Herald (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1856-1857
• The Sun (New Bern, N.C.) – 1908-1914
• Eastern Carolina Republican (New Bern, N.C.) – 1850-1851
• Republican and Patriot (New Bern, N.C.) – 1851-1852
• Daily Progress (New Bern, N.C.) – 1862-1863
• The Democratic Signal (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1843-1844
• North Carolina Christian Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1856-1858
• New Berne Weekly Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1882-1883
• New Bern Semi-Weekly Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1914
• The Daily Wilmington Herald (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1865-1866
• The Daily Dispatch (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1867
• The Evening Dispatch (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1895-1916
• New Berne Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1882
• The Arator (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1855-1857
• The North Carolina Shipbuilder (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1942-1946
• The Star (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1808-1815
• The Star and North Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1816-1834
• Daily Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1875-1884
• Daily State Journal (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1862-1865
• The Raleigh Sentinel (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1876

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.

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:

1. The Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1867-1901
2. Carolina Centinel (New Bern, N.C.) – 1818-1822
3. The Newbernian (New Bern, N.C.) – 1843-1848
4. Newbern Spectator (New Bern, N.C.) – 1834
5. New Berne Daily Times (New Bern, N.C.) – 1866-1874
6. The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1890-1907
7. The New Era and Commercial Advertiser (New Bern, N.C.) – 1854-1859
8. Daily Progress (New Bern, N.C.) – 1858-1861
9. The Carolina Farmer and Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1871-1874
10. The Daily Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1882-1914
11. The Morning New Bernian (New Bern, N.C.) – 1916-1917
12. The Encyclopedian Instructor and Farmer’s Gazette (Edenton, N.C.) – 1785-1801
13. The Herald of the Union (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1865
14. The Daily Herald (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1854-1861
15. The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1892-1896
16. The New Bern Sun Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1920-1922
17. New Berne Weekly Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1884-1913
18. Saturday Record (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1915-1937
19. North-Carolina Gazette (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1769-1800
20. The Daily Dispatch (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1865-1866
21. The New Bernian (New Bern, N.C.) – 1921-1924
22. North Carolina Christian Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1874-1909
23. The Daily Progress (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1862-1864
24. The Raleigh News (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1872-1880
25. The Friend of Temperance (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1868-1879
26. Newbern Sentinel (New Bern, N.C.) – 1834-1837
27. Weekly Conservative (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1864-1865
28. The Farmer and Mechanic (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1905
29. The Raleigh Microcosm (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1838-1843
30. The Morning Post (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1897-1899
31. The Harbinger (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1902-1904
32. The Daily Evening Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1892-1893
33. The Raleigh Evening Times (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1905-1908
34. The Evening Times (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1908-1910
35. The Raleigh Daily Times (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1910
36. The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1906-1922
37. The Wilmington Post (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1867-1877
38. The Evening Dispatch (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1914
39. The Evening Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1879-1881
40. The Friend and Templar (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1876-1880

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.

This week we are sharing the second installment of titles on DigitalNC that were brought to us by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) in a cooperative effort with the North Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries.

The NDNP is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress with the intention of creating a vast, searchable database of newspapers and other historical documents. You can currently search all of the NDNP issues on the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America website. Those same issues will be available on our newspaper database, allowing you to search that content alongside the other papers on DigitalNC.  The week’s titles are the following:

• Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.) – 1888-1934
• Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1931-1937
• The Tarborough Southerner (Tarboro, N.C.) – 1848-1876
• The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1853-1887
• Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1836-1858
• Marion Progress (Marion, N.C.) – 1930-1931
• The News and Views (Jacksonville, N.C.) – 1942-1952
• Fisherman & Farmer (Edenton, N.C.) – 1889-1901
• The Farmer and Mechanic (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1877-1915
• The Free Press (Southern Pines, N.C.) – 1898-1905
• The Commonwealth (Scotland Neck, N.C.) – 1888
• The Review (High Point, N.C.) – 1910-1921
• Rockingham Post-Dispatch (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1917-1922
• French Broad Hustler (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1905-1919
• The Durham Daily Globe (Durham, N.C.) – 1887-1894
• The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1897-1908
• Journal of Freedom (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865
• The Sun (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1883-1885
• The North-Carolinian (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1842-1857
• Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1941-1946
• The Robesonian (Lumberton, N.C.) – 1872-1918
• Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.) – 1886
• The State Chronicle (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1883-1892
• The Daily Caucasian (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1895
• The Gold Leaf (Henderson, N.C.) – 1882-1911
• The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.) – 1884-1913
• The Durham Recorder (Durham, N.C.) – 1879-1911
• The Hillsborough Recorder (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1836-1879
• Henderson Daily Dispatch (Henderson, N.C.) – 1932-1940
• Hillsboro Recorder (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1887-1888
• The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1935-1939
• The Lincoln Times (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1935-1962
• The Southern News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1938-1962
• Charlotte Messenger (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1882-1889
• The Weekly Intelligencer (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1864-1865
• The Educator (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1874-1875
• The Chapel Hill Weekly (Chapel Hill, N.C.) – 1930-1934
• Wilmington Journal (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1844-1876
• Cherokee Scout (Murphy, N.C.) – 1890-1917
• The Daily Confederate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1864-1865
• The Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1891-1898
• Our Living and Our Dead (New Bern, N.C.) – 1873-1874
• North Carolina Republican (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1880
• Weekly Confederate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1864-1865
• The Monroe Journal (Monroe, N.C.) – 1903-1922
• The Journal of Industry (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1879-1880
• North Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1885
• The Skyland Post (West Jefferson, N.C.) – 1935-1947
• The Coastland Times (Manteo, N.C.) – 1951-1962
• The Burke County News (Morganton, N.C.) – 1899-1900
• The Fool-Killer (Boomer, N.C.) – 1910-1922
• Orange County Observer (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1880-1916

This concludes the list of newspapers that we are sharing from the NDNP. 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.