Thanks to our amazing partners at the New Hanover County Public Library, DigitalNC is proud to announce that a brand new collection of The Wilmington Morning Star are now available online! These brand new issues cover the entirety of a single year, from sunrise of New Years Day to sunset of New Years Eve, 1923. These issues will join over twenty thousand historic issues of The Wilmington Morning Star already online on DigitalNC, which spans from 1867 to 1947.
The Wilmington Morning Star was a daily newspaper that served New Hanover County for over a century, reporting local and national news to coastal North Carolina. Each issue covers topics of national concern, features advertisements from businesses across the east coast, and reports on the daily occurrences of coastal Carolina life. This batch offers a unique opportunity to read the daily experience of a Carolinian from exactly a century ago. Interested in what The Wilmington Morning Star was reporting on a hundred and one years before your birthday? This batch has you covered! Curious about how twentieth century Tar Heels observed Groundhog’s Day, Arbor Day, or President’s Day? This batch has an issue on each of those days! A search of the author’s “birthday issue” (October 29!) featured this amazing story about a skunk army, possibly one of the coolest articles in the entire collection (in her unbiased opinion).
You can find each of these 363 issues online now at DigitalNC here. Interested in reading more of this historic newspaper? Find DigitalNC’s complete collection of The Wilmington Morning Star online here. Thanks again to our amazing partners at the New Hanover County Public Library for making these issues available. You can find their partner page at DigitalNC online here, or discover their website online here.
