Thanks to our partners at the Appalachian Regional Library and Ashe County Public Library, new issues of The Skyland Post (West Jefferson, N.C.) newspaper are now available on our website DigitalNC. The microfilm issues are now ready for viewing in an easily accessible digital format! This latest batch of newspapers range from 1947-1952. You can view more issues of The Skyland Post (West Jefferson, N.C.) newspaper using keyword(s) and date.

To browse all of our newspapers by location, date, and type, take a look at our North Carolina Newspapers collection. To see what other materials they have contributed, visit the Appalachian Regional Library partners page. To learn more about what the library has been up to, check out the Appalachian Regional Library website.

Six years of the Mount Olive Tribune are now on DigitalNC, thanks to our partner University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries. The new issues are the first from the Tribune to be hosted on our site. The Mount Olive Tribune is based out of Mount Olive, North Carolina, and has served Duplin and Wayne Counties since 1904.

This batch covers 1942 to 1944, as well as from 1954 to 1956. The issues, numbering almost six hundred in total, contain articles covering daily life in the Carolina Piedmont during the second world war and the post-war period. Articles feature stories on how to reach your deployed loved ones, news at the Southern Farm Market, and advertisements for newfangled soda fountains. The papers are both comprehensive and cohesive, covering a myriad aspects of life within Mount Olive during the period.

To view more newspapers from across North Carolina, visit our North Carolina Newspapers portal.

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.

The oldest and largest fraternal organization in the state, The Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of North Carolina, was founded in 1771 and has maintained an active presence in the state since then. We are excited to add new issues of The North Carolina Mason on the site to help represent this long history. These latest additions include 1973-1993, a significant update to our preexisting collection and a valuable resource for anyone interested in the membership, activities, and philanthropy of North Carolina Freemasons in the late twentieth century. To learn more about the North Carolina Masons today, you can visit their website.

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.