Starting this week, we will have an update every Friday on new titles being added to our newspaper collection during a year-long project to bring already digitized content from the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) and Newspapers.com onto the DigitalNC newspaper platform. 

This week we are sharing a list of the many new titles on DigitalNC that were brought to us by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) in conjunction 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and the Library of Congress with the intention of creating a vast, searchable database of newspapers and other historical documents. While you can currently search all of the NDNP issues on the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America website, adding those same issues to our  newspaper database will allow you to search that content alongside the other papers on DigitalNC.  The titles in this batch include:

• The Goldsboro Star (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1881-1882
• Fisherman & Farmer (Edenton, N.C.) – 1887-1901
• The Hillsborough Recorder (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1820-1835
• The Daily Times (Wilson, N.C.) – 1918-1922
• The Wilson Times (Wilson, N.C.) – 1896-1922
• The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.) – 1857-1885
• The Daily Independent (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1936-1937
• The Southland Advocate (Asheville, N.C.) – 1950
• The Southern News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1938
• The Peoples’ Advocate (New Bern, N.C.) – 1886
• African Expositor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1886
• The Independent (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1919-1936
• Goldsboro Weekly Argus (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1892-1909
• Spirit of the Age (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1850-1865
• The Banner-Enterprise (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1883-1884
• Die Suedliche Post (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1869
• Henderson Daily Dispatch (Henderson, N.C.) – 1940-1946
• Hickory Daily Record (Hickory, N.C.) – 1915-1922
• The Chapel Hill Weekly (Chapel Hill, N.C.) – 1923-1963
• The Tri-Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1866-1868
• The North Carolina Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1853-1865
• Newbern Progress (New Bern, N.C.) – 1863
• Newbern Weekly Progress (New Bern, N.C.) – 1858-1863
• The Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1836-1870
• Asheville Daily Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1885-1894
• The Times-News (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1933-1938
• The Laurinburg Post (Laurinburg, N.C.) – 1895
• The Progressive Farmer and the Cotton Plant (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1886-1905
• Daily Herald (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) – 1923-1948
• Tabor City Tribune (Tabor City, N.C.) – 1946-1963
• The Lincoln Times (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1935-1956
• The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1890-1905
• Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1940-1947

Over the next few weeks we will be uploading more newspapers from 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.

Title of GreenLine Newspaper

Digital NC is happy to announce the new additions of the Green Line Newspaper, 1987 – 1994. The Green Line newspaper was a local newsletter in Asheville, North Carolina, part of the North Carolina Green Party for the Western NC Green Movement. While many of their initiatives surrounded environmental causes within the community and the state and aligned with the NC Green Party, the newsletter was editorially independent. Within the newsletter, stories ranged from discussing the local election and potential candidates to environmental issues such as water issues and conservation within the community.

The newsletter was released once a month to interested parties. Individuals could also write into the newsletter and submit their thoughts and questions as part of the “The Green Line Effect.” The newsletter was free to individuals in 70 different locations or could be mailed for the year.

To learn more about the Green Line Newspaper, check them out here. To view more newspapers, visit our North Carolina Newspaper Collection.

Special thanks to our partner, the Buncombe County Public Library. To view more from Buncombe County Public Library, please visit their partner page.

Thanks to our partner, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC), 55 new issues of UNCC’s student newspaper The Carolina Journal are now available on our website. This batch expands our current holdings of the newspaper to include issues from 1976 to 1978. The Carolina Journal covers topics such as college athletics, social events, problems and issues related to campus, and more. 

One problem reported on by The Carolina Journal was the lack of beer at the Jam-Up UNCC event. Traditionally, the event had included “bare legs, bare feet, good music, sunshine and beer,” according to writer Brad Rich. But that year, 1977, the beer was missing and students were curious as to why.

Rich’s investigation into the problem did not yield any definitive answers, but created even more questions. According to the Dean of Students, student fees were considered state money and since they were considered the state’s money, it was against state ABC laws for the University to buy alcohol. The Dean says the reason they were allowed to buy beer before was simply because no one was held directly responsible for the purchase of the alcohol. The former Attorney General, however, stated that the administration at UNCC did not definitively know if student fees counted as state money, but were afraid if they asked that all the money, such as what they earn on athletics, could fall under the control of the Board of Governors. To read the “Why No Beer? article in its entirety, please click here.

“Why No Beer?,” April 12, 1977.

To learn more about the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, please visit their website.

To view more newspapers from across North Carolina, please click here.