A new batch of student newspapers from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte is now available on DigitalNC, thanks to our partners at UNC Charlotte! This recent addition includes 44 issues from August 1978 through April 1979, a testament to the paper’s prolific output. Readers can peruse the volumes to gain insight into the issues with which students were most concerned. While many of the stories featured in the paper are local to campus and the surrounding Charlotte area, articles also cover state-wide and national news.

Visitors to the site can view all of our newspaper issues from UNC Charlotte here. To view other student newspapers, navigate to “Browse Newspaper Titles” and select the “Student Papers” filter. See all of our materials from UNC Charlotte, including yearbooks, catalogs, photographs, and more newspaper titles at their contributor page here.

New issues from thirteen newspaper titles have been added to DigitalNC, thanks to The North Carolina Collection at UNC Chapel Hill. These date from the late 19th century and fill in gaps in our digital newspaper collections. Issues from Our Home, The Daily Record, The Morning Herald, and The Western Herald are the first of these titles on the site.

Below is a list of titles, their cities of publication, and the years from which the issues date.

• Henderson Gold Leaf (Henderson, N.C.) – May 25, 1899
• The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.) – Nov. 18, 1898
• The Home Rule (Raleigh, N.C.) – Oct. 20, 1898
• The Western Herald (Jefferson, N.C.) – June 20, 1899
• The Morning Herald (Durham, N.C.) – Feb. 6, 1898, Sept. 18, 1898, Oct. 2, 1898, and Feb. 12, 1899
• The Lincoln Journal (Lincolnton, N.C.) – Aug. 26, 1898
• The Milton Herald (Milton, N.C.) – Feb. 3, 1898
• The Daily Record (Greensboro, N.C.) – Feb. 15, 1898, May 4, 1898, and June 8, 1898
• Salisbury Daily Sun (Salisbury, N.C.) – Aug. 10, 1898 and Dec. 28, 1899
• Our Home (Marshville, N.C.) – Aug. 16, 1898
• The Raleigh Times (Raleigh, N.C.) – May 26, 1898
• Winston-Salem Journal (Winston-Salem, N.C.) – May 25, 1898
• King’s Weekly (Greenville, N.C.) – March 24, 1899

Search or browse all of our newspapers here.

1,691 issues of The Asheville-Gazette News are now available on the site, thanks to our partners at Buncombe County Public Libraries. This paper was published daily and is an incredibly rich resource for information on life in early 1900s Asheville. 1904-1909 were years of rapid growth, as Asheville grew from a small mountain town to a major hub for the region. The arrival of railroads in the 1880s transformed Asheville into a popular resort town for travelers seeking the healthful mountain air and beautiful landscapes. Just a few years before these issues were published, George W. Vanderbilt’s Biltmore Estate was completed as the largest private residence in the United States, cementing the city as both a tourist destination and a desirable place to live. While trains and electric cars still reigned as the main method of transportation, these newspapers show the advent of the automobile and its early adoption by some residents.

The city was growing in population, commerce, and technological advancement. Asheville in the early 1900s was maturing into a real urban center, with 14,000 permanent residents in 1901. As such, the issues in these newspapers are concerned with matters ranging from hyper-local to international. Readers could see which of their neighbors was traveling and to where, and on the next page get the latest updates on the 1905 Russian Revolution. Elections, both regional and national, were covered in The Asheville-Gazette News. Advertisements reveal the many businesses operating in town and speak to the needs and interests of residents, including many promoting various elixirs and compounds for healing illness. The content in these newspapers is wide-ranging and reveals a great deal about the history of Western North Carolina and its place in the world.

Researchers can view all of The Asheville-Gazette News issues on DigitalNC here. See all of the materials contributed by Buncombe County Public Libraries here, and visit the digital collections on their site here. Lastly, visitors to our site can see all of our digitized newspapers on the North Carolina Newspapers page.

Our newest partner, the Bessemer City History and Art Society, has contributed the 1964-1967 volumes of its local newspaper The Bessemer City Record. Founded in 1898, Bessemer City is a town of about 5,000 people 25 miles from Charlotte. Its newspaper shows a close-knit community at the end of an era, with many of the same names and families reoccurring throughout the publications. These volumes reveal the beginning of the transformational changes of the 1960s, and in between high school graduations, local club events, and engagement announcements are stories about the Vietnam War and its impact on the town.

Visitors to the site can also see a variety of interesting advertisements, many of which are promoting Duke Power and its supposed benefits to housewives. These newspapers could be of interest to anyone researching Bessemer City history and genealogy, advertising, 1960s North Carolina, and much more. Learn more about the Bessemer City History and Art Society here, and keep an eye out for future batches at their DigitalNC contributor page here.