External Websites

This page provides links to external digital collections and websites focusing on the state of North Carolina.

Digital Collections

The Church in the Southern Black Community

This collection is available online from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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The hundred texts selected specifically for The Church in the Southern Black Community are primarily books, together with a few pamphlets and journal articles.

A selection of highlights from this collection includes:

The Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920

This collection is available online from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University.

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Emergence of Advertising in America presents more than 9,000 images relating to the early history of advertising in the United States.

A selection of highlights from this collection includes:

First-Person Narratives of the American South

This collection is available online from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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This collection includes diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives of prominent individuals, as well as of relatively inaccessible populations: women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans.

A selection of highlights from this collection includes:

Historic American Sheet Music

This collection is available online from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University.

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This collection includes 3,042 pieces of sheet music published in America between 1850 and 1920. It presents a wide variety of types of vocal music: bel canto, minstrel songs, protest songs, sentimental songs, patriotic and political songs, plantation songs, Civil War songs, spirituals, dance music, songs from vaudeville and musicals, Tin Pan Alley and World War I. The collection contains eleven items pertaining to North Carolina.

Making of America Books

This collection is available online from the University of Michigan.

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Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The book collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books with 19th century imprints.

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Hints on the Internal improvement of North Carolina: Respectfully Addressed to his Countrymen, by North Carolinian. External

General Resources

National Park Service (NPS): North Carolina
The fundamental purpose of the NPS is to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such
means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations. The NPS provides highlights, statistics, and a list of national parks for North Carolina.
NC.Gov
NC.Gov is the gateway to North Carolina state government Web sites and information; includes selected resources on federal, county and local government.
NCpedia External
NCpedia highlights North Carolina's unique resources, people and culture to enrich, educate and inform.
North Carolina Digital Collections
The 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.
North Carolina ECHO
Sponsored by the State Library of North Carolina in cooperation with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Innovative and collaborative project seeks to build a statewide framework for digitization in order to facilitate deep, wide, and comprehensive access to the holdings of North Carolina's cultural institutions.
North Carolina Maps External
North Carolina Maps is a comprehensive, online collection of historic maps from the North Carolina State Archives, the University of North Carolina, and the Outer Banks History Center.

North Carolina: State Resource Guide

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External Websites

Digital Collections

The Church in the Southern Black Community

A selection of highlights from this collection includes:

The Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920

A selection of highlights from this collection includes:

First-Person Narratives of the American South

A selection of highlights from this collection includes:

Historic American Sheet Music

Making of America Books

Selected highlight from this collection:

General Resources