Archives & Local History: North Carolina History

Find suggested North Carolina resources from NC LIVE.

NC ECHO enables users to search across thousands of digitized and born-digital historic materials including a wide variety of books, photographs, maps, family histories, state documents, newspapers, and much more...

The North Carolina Collection is dedicated to preserving literary, visual, and artifactual materials illustrating four centuries of the colony and state of North Carolina. The collection comprises three divisions: the Research Library, North Carolina Collection Gallery, and Photographic Archives.

Archived materials related to North Carolina at the Digital Public Library of America. Includes images, sounds, and text documents.

he North Carolina Digital Collections contain over 90,000 historic and recent photographs, state government publications, manuscripts, and other resources on topics related to North Carolina. The Collections are free and full-text searchable, and bring together content from the State Archives of North Carolina and the State Library of North Carolina.

Online encyclopedia of North Carolina history.

The North Carolina Periodicals Index is produced by the staff of the Verona Joyner Langford North Carolina Collection, J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. The index provides access to articles in regional publications that pertain to a wide range of North Carolina-related topics, including the arts, business, culture, history, law, natural resources, public policy, tourism, and travel.

Find Depression-era archived photographs from Yale University.

Search America's newspapers from 1789-1924 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

Historical news database from ProQuest with 3.5 million pages of digitized content from over 1,000 county newspapers in North Carolina. Content dates back to 1751.

Search digitized historic North Carolina newspapers from DigitalNC.

Search archives for obituaries and death notices.