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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.
Last summer we hosted students from a middle school in Wilmington who did extensive research on the 1898 riots in Wilmington. They came along with staff from the Cape Fear Museum, who brought the issues of the Wilmington Daily Record the museum held. We scanned those newspapers on site, along with clippings from papers around the state and country with articles about the riots. To learn more about their visit, read the post we did about it during the summer during the summer here.
This fall, as a continuing part of our work with this group, we were pleased to make available 16 newspapers published in Wilmington during the 19th century, ranging in dates from 1803 to 1901. Some of the papers have several years of content available and several have just an issue or two. But together, they paint a rich picture of what life in Wilmington looked like during the 1800s and the wide variety of political viewpoints that were held in the city, and North Carolina as a whole. The papers shed light on a port town that was instrumental in the Civil War and in the politics of Reconstruction afterwards, which culminated in the infamous riots of 1898.
The news in Wilmington, as told in the Cape Fear Herald, published on Nov. 4, 1803
The sixteen papers now available are:
The Cape Fear Herald
The True Republican or American Whig
The Liberalist and Wilmington Reporter
Wilmington Advertiser and
Merchants’ and Farmers’ Gazette
Our Rights
Sunday Morning Mail
The New Era
The Wilmington Gazette
The Wilmington Post
The Evening Post
The Daily Review
The Weekly Star
The Wilmington Democrat
The New South
The Wilmington Dispatch
View other newspapers on DigitalNC here.