North Carolina Digital Heritage Center

09/11/2026

On the 25th anniversary of the attacks on September 11, 2001, we look back at how North Carolinians processed the news the very next day, particularly college students at the time. All the front pages here were published on September 12, 2001 and show how much confusion was still in the air and how people responded within 24 hours of the towers falling.
The newspapers in order are:
The Daily Tar Heel
The Chowan Herald
Gardner-Webb University The Pilot
The Meredith Herald
Methodist University Monarch Messenger (note it was a special edition - they also had already sent to print a different issue for that day we also have on DigitalNC)
The Taylorsville Times
The Blue Banner
UNCW The Seahawk
The Chronicle

You can view more newspapers from that day and the days following here: https://newspapers.digitalnc.org/search/pages/results/?proxtext=&proxdistance=5&ortext=&andtext=&phrasetext=&city=&county=&date1=2001-01-01&date2=2001-12-31&language=&frequency=&sequence=1&rows=&page=36&sort=date

09/10/2026

Thanks to our new partner the Elizabeth City Historic Neighborhood Association, issues of the Daily Advance covering 1916 and 1930-1947 are now on DigitalNC, bringing total coverage of the Daily Advance online from 1913-1947, which is over 9000 issues!

Learn more about this new batch on our blog today - which focuses on the details around the Wright Memorial being built out at Kill Devil Hills
https://www.digitalnc.org/blog/aviation-history-on-display-in-new-batch-of-the-daily-advance/

09/08/2026

Thanks to our partner Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, three years of Crisp N’ Curls, the yearbook of the Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing in Charlotte, N.C., from 1953 to 1955, are now on DigitalNC, along with the 1966 edition of Tryonta, the yearbook of Tryon High School in Bessemer City, N.C., and the 1951 edition of Chenoca, the yearbook of Cherryville High School in Cherryville, N.C. Learn more about what you can find in these yearbooks on our blog today!

https://www.digitalnc.org/blog/uncover-over-a-century-of-nursing-history-in-new-yearbooks-from-charlotte-mecklenburg-library/

08/26/2026

Thanks to our partner Brevard Music Center, issues of their newsletter Brevard Notes, past performance schedules, photographs, and more are now on DigitalNC! Check out our blog post to learn more and view the materials.

https://www.digitalnc.org/blog/programs-newsletters-photographs-and-more-now-online-from-brevard-music-center/

08/25/2026

From what we can tell from our newspaper collection, one of Dolly's first concerts in North Carolina was on February 4, 1968 in Asheville with Porter Wagner, just six months or so after the release of her first solo album Hello, I'm Dolly! and and right after her and Porter Wagner's first duet album. Thanks to our partner Alexander County Library, issues of the Taylorsville Times are on DigitalNC and the Times had a regular music column called "Record Ramblings" that reported on the most popular music of the week. The February 1, 1968 issue noted the concert happening later that week in Asheville. https://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn97064600/1968-02-01/ed-1/seq-2/

Dolly Parton truly was the Queen of Country Music but those of us in the library world love her especially because of her generosity with her amazing Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, which gifted over 300 million books to children. May she rest in peace.

08/20/2026

Thanks to our partner Watts Nursing Alumni Association, a batch of over 400 photographs of students who attended Watts School of Nursing (now Watts College of Nursing ) are now up on DigitalNC! On our blog today we showcase some of those photographs and dive a little more into the process of scanning slides, which is what all these photographs were on.

https://www.digitalnc.org/blog/watts-new-on-digitalnc-photographs-from-watts-school-of-nursing-and-digitization-techniques/

08/18/2026

Two scrapbooks and a notebook from Edgecombe County Memorial Library are now on DigitalNC, one scrapbook detailing two historic landmarks in Tarboro, the town hall and the county courthouse; the other filled with a local's experience during World War I, and a genealogy notebook tracking the Castex, Clements, Jenkins, Gainer, Hopkins, Perry, and Staton families. Learn more on our blog today!
https://www.digitalnc.org/blog/new-materials-from-edgecombe-county-memorial-library-now-available-online/

08/14/2026

📣 TODAY is the last day to submit a nomination for this year's microfilmed newspaper digitization! The form will close TONIGHT (August 14th) at 11:59PM.
Learn more about the nomination process and access the submission form on our blog, here:
https://www.digitalnc.org/.../call-for-nominations.../

📰🎉 Sound the siren, because it’s time for the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center's annual round of microfilmed newspaper digitization! 🎉 📰

The Center is currently accepting newspaper digitization title nominations for our 2026-2027 grant cycle!

If you have a North Carolina newspaper that you'd like to nominate for digitization, head over to our blog (linked below) to learn more.

We typically receive more requests than we can accommodate, so don't wait to nominate. Deadline for submissions is Friday, August 14, 2026 at 11:59PM.

We look forward to seeing which newspapers you nominate this year!

https://www.digitalnc.org/blog/call-for-nominations-microfilmed-newspaper-digitization-2026-2027/

08/13/2026

📣 TOMORROW is the last day to submit a nomination for this year's microfilmed newspaper digitization! The form will close Friday (August 14th) at 11:59PM.

Learn more about the nomination process and access the submission form on our blog, here:
https://www.digitalnc.org/blog/call-for-nominations-microfilmed-newspaper-digitization-2026-2027/

📰🎉 Sound the siren, because it’s time for the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center's annual round of microfilmed newspaper digitization! 🎉 📰

The Center is currently accepting newspaper digitization title nominations for our 2026-2027 grant cycle!

If you have a North Carolina newspaper that you'd like to nominate for digitization, head over to our blog (linked below) to learn more.

We typically receive more requests than we can accommodate, so don't wait to nominate. Deadline for submissions is Friday, August 14, 2026 at 11:59PM.

We look forward to seeing which newspapers you nominate this year!

https://www.digitalnc.org/blog/call-for-nominations-microfilmed-newspaper-digitization-2026-2027/

08/12/2026

Thanks to our partner Moore County Historical Association, 150 photographs documenting Moore County are now online, with more to come in the future. They showcase architecture around the county, the sporting culture of the county, and many events through the years. Check out our blog to view a few and visit our website to see the whole batch!

https://www.digitalnc.org/blog/photographs-of-moore-county-now-on-digitalnc/