Thanks to our partner, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and funding from the Library Services and Technology Act, we’ve added issues of the Carolina Jeffersonian newspaper from Raleigh, N.C. This batch of the weekly newspaper includes issues from 1924-25.

Before you start paging through this paper, it’s important to know that the Jeffersonian is most likely named in honor of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America—and the reasoning will be obvious once you see any one of these issues. The editors of this paper are extremely sympathetic toward the Ku Klux Klan, frequently covering news (and sometimes just praise) of the hate group.

The issues could have good use for genealogists however. Beginning in the December 4, 1924 edition, the paper begins a list (alphabetical by county) of former Confederate soldiers receiving pensions. It also frequently uses the names and photographs of Klan speakers and connected public figures.

You can see all issues of the Carolina Jeffersonian here. You can also browse our entire collection of digital newspapers by location, type, and date in our North Carolina Newspapers collection. To see more materials from UNC Chapel Hill, you can visit their partner page and their website.