Hackney Library: Greenfield Upper School Students: North Carolina News

Index to North Carolina Periodicals

North Carolina Periodicals Index This link opens in a new window
This index is produced by staff at Joyner Library at ECU. It selectively indexes articles in North Carolina periodicals which are not covered by the standard commercial indexes. It is a good place to look for articles about North Carolina history and culture.

North Carolina Newspaper Locator This link opens in a new window
The North Carolina Newspaper Locator database, reflecting the microfilm holdings of the Government & Heritage Library, contains listings for nearly 2,000 unique North Carolina newspaper titles dating from 1751 to today. Free to all and of particular interest to North Carolina genealogists and historians, this database locates newspapers in time and geographic space. Users can search for titles by specific counties or those surrounding them, city, date or date range, or by a newspaper title itself. Once a newspaper has been located, users may request the microfilm reels through their local library's interlibrary loan service. The State Library of North Carolina lends newspaper microfilm to libraries throughout the continental United States.

North State Journal This link opens in a new window
The North State Journal is North Carolina’s only statewide newspaper. Founded in 2015, the North State Journal’s mission is to delve deep, engage with truth, help citizens find common ground, and fill a void in North Carolina’s media landscape.
North Carolina Newspapers via onlinenewspapers.com This link opens in a new window
This page on the onlinenewspapers.com site lists links to online versions of local North Carolina newspapers.

The following resources do not include current articles.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (North Carolina Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
This collection from the Library of Congress Chronicling America site provides access to 46 historical newspapers published in North Carolina ranging from 1836 to 1922. They are listed alphabetically by newspaper title. Some issues are available in the full text.
DigitalNC (North Carolina Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
This site allows you to search a collection of historical student and community newspapers from schools and towns around North Carolina.
Historic North Carolina Digital Newspaper Collection This link opens in a new window
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Contains 3.5 million pages of digitized content from over 1,000 NC county newspapers dating from the 1700s into the early 2000s.

Links to databases containing back issues of the Wilson Times (formerly the Wilson Daily Times), published in Wilson, NC, are below:

Wilson Times/Wilson Daily Times Archive (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
An archive of articles from 2007 to 2018 provided through EBSCO.
Wilson Times (Chronicling America) This link opens in a new window
Historical digitized issues for selected issues in selected years between 1896 and 1922.