African American Education
Collection Status: Open for Transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Easy About the Collection This collection contains documents and photographs related to African American education in North Carolina before 1950, drawn from the collections of the Charlotte Hawkins Brown...
Cohabitation Records (Marriage Records)
Collection Status: Open for Transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Intermediate About the Collection In March 1866, the General Assembly passed “An Act Concerning Negroes and Persons of Color or of Mixed Blood,” which included a statute that recognized enslaved people who had...
District Superior Court Records
Collection Status: Temporarily Closed Due to Technical Difficulties Transcription Difficulty Rating: Expert About the Collection The supreme courts of justice system, in effect briefly from 1755 to 1759, served as the immediate predecessor and the pattern on which the district...
General Assembly Session Records (1760-1762)
Collection Status: Open for transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Intermediate/Experienced About the Collection The General Assembly Session Records digital collection features records of early North Carolina state legislatures found within the holdings of the State...
Military Papers
Collection Status: Open for Transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Easy About the Collection This collection includes a selection of documents from the World War I and World War II eras. How to Help Transcribe Documents The transcription conventions, or “rules,” are...
Regulator Movement
Collection Status: Open for transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Intermediate About the Collection The Regulator Movement was a brief uprising in eastern North Carolina from 1768 to 1771, before the start of the American Revolution. North Carolinians became angry with...
Revolutionary War Era
Collection Status: Open for transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Intermediate About the Collection The American Revolutionary War, 1775 to 1783, secured the independence of the United States of America from Great Britain and established a constitutional democracy. Following...
Tax Lists and Records
Collection Status: Open for Transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Intermediate About the Collection The Tax Lists and Records collection features tax records from the holdings of the State Archives of North Carolina, drawn from the General Assembly, Treasurer &...
Travel Perspectives
Collection Status: Open for Transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Easy/Intermediate About the Collection The Travel Perspectives collection features narratives and images of tourism as experienced by North Carolinians, found within the holdings of the State Archives of North...
Troop Rosters (1747-1893)
Collection Status: Open for transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Intermediate About the Collection This collection is comprised of Troop Returns from the State Archives of North Carolina Military Collection. Troop Returns (1747-1893) include lists, returns, records of...
Will Books
Collection Status: Open for Transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Intermediate/Expert About the Collection Part of the Secretary of State wills collection, this series contains bound recorded copies of probated wills. Some volumes also include recorded deeds, inventories of...
Women's History
Collection Status: Open for Transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Easy About the Collection This collection of documents provides a glimpse into the lives of North Carolina women as they changed history in our state and the nation during the 19th and 20th centuries. It...
World War I Letters
Collection Status: Open for transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Intermediate About the Collection This collection includes World War I letters (correspondence) from the consistently expanding collections of the State Library and State Archives of North Carolina. How to Help...
World War II Letters
Collection Status: Open for Transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Intermediate About the Collection This collection includes a sample of World War II letters from the Military Collection of the State Archives of North Carolina. To help with context, such as the names of...