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Welcome to the WikiProject North Carolina Resource Library! This page provides organized information guides and curated links to resources that might be useful in providing information, citations, and images to help build the various articles about North Carolina subjects.

Most of the links are to the Internet Archive, a free-content repository which contains many high-resolution digital scans of original works, freely available for download. Links are for the benefit of the North Carolina wikiproject, and should not be seen as an endorsement of any authors or organizations. Any assessment of an item's ultimate value to the Wikipedia project will rest with the editor who chooses to use it (and the broader community consensus).

For more help with finding resources, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange, or visit your local library and consult the library reference desk.

Guidelines

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To ensure its usefulness to all Contributors and Editors, every resource added to the North Carolina Resource Library, must fit ALL criteria listed below:

  • Freely accessible to any reader; (i.e. Not behind a paywall or requiring a password).
  • Suitable for use as a reliable source, providing factual information, OR a source of freely-licensed images.
  • Either within the public domain, freely licensed, or otherwise legally hosted at the destination site.
  • Non-commercial or historical (i.e. Not promoting a current interest). As with the standards of Wikipedia, this is not a place for promotional links (see WP:NOT).
  • Organize lists from A-Z by first name, last name, in "Books"; and website publisher or name, in "Websites" and "Freely-licensed images and media".

Books

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See Colonial and State Records of North Carolina for a larger and more complete list.

  • Cheney, John L. Jr. (1974). North Carolina Government, 1585–1974. – This book contains short histories of North Carolina and lists of public officials.
  • Cheney, John L. Jr., ed. (1981). North Carolina Government, 1585-1979 : A Narrative and Statistical History (revised ed.). Raleigh: North Carolina Secretary of State. OCLC 1290270510. – Updated edition of previous book.
  • Connor, Robert Diggs Wimberly, ed. (1913). A Manual of North Carolina (PDF). Raleigh, North Carolina: E. M. Uzzell & Company. p. 475. – This book contains short histories of the North Carolina government and lists of officials. It is produced for each session of the North Carolina General Assembly by the North Carolina Secretary of State.
  • Powell, William S. (1988). North Carolina: A History. University of North Carolina Press.
  • Powell, William S. (1989). North Carolina through Four Centuries. University of North Carolina Press.
  • Powell, William S., ed. (1996). Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. – Volume 1, A–C (1979) – Volume 2, D–G (1986) – Volume 3, H–K (1988) – Volume 4, L–O (1991) – Volume 5, P–S (1994) – Volume 6, T–Z (1996)
  • Tetterton, Beverly; Tetterton, Glenn (1998). North Carolina County Fact Book. Broadfoot's of Wendell. – Volume 1, Alamance-Jackson – Volume 2, Johnston-Yancey
  • Wheeler, John Hill, ed. (1874). The Legislative Manual and Political Register of the State of North Carolina for the Year 1874. Raleigh, North Carolina: Josiah Turner, Jr.; State Printer and Binder. – This book contains short histories of North Carolina history, government, and lists of public officials in North Carolina.

Websites

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  • "Bussiness North Carolina". businessnc.com. – Magazine pertaining to business in North Carolina. Note: some articles might be sponsored.
  • "Comprehensive Transportation Plans". Connect NCDOT. – Long-term transportation plans for the state. Note: these plans are what various municipalities, counties, and MPOs want, not what will be built (See the NCDOT's State Improvement Transportation Plan map for the official long-term plan).
  • "North Carolina". davesredistricting.org. – Contains up to date and past district maps for NC and the US. While free to use, the maps can be downloaded as a shapefile or PNG if you create an account (which is also free to do so). The site also has statistics which can compare the vote swing in precincts all the way back to the 2012 presidential election.
  • "DigitalNC". DigitalNC. – Online archive containing items from libraries, museums, and archives in North Carolina.
  • "Internet Archive". Internet Archive. – Non-profit internet archive service which also contain the Wayback Machine.
  • "National Archives". National Archives. – National Archives of the United States.
  • "North Carolina Health News". NC Health News. – Non-profit news organization with focus on public health.
  • "Colonial Records of North Carolina". ncdcr.gov. Produced by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. – Contains digital copies and transcriptions of colonial records.
  • "North Carolina Digital Collections". ncdcr.gov. – Digital collections of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
  • "North Carolina Encyclopedia, NCpedia". NCpedia.org. – This website is an authoritative source for biographies and histories of North Carolina published by the North Carolina Government & Heritage Library. Many of the articles are based on William S. Powell's Encyclopedia of North Carolina.
  • "Archive". North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research. – Access to archives of North Carolina Insight, magazine on government and political affairs.
  • "State Mapping Resources". North Carolina Department of Transportation. – Various maps created by the NCDOT.
  • "North Carolina Newspapers". DigitalNC. North Carolina Digital Heritage Center. – Searchable database of full issues of newspapers across North Carolina from the late 1800s to the early 21st century.
  • "Counties". North Carolina Treasurer. – Organized list of annual fiscal reports carried out in each county; quality of reports vary between counties.
  • "Carolina Demography". University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. – University program for the study of state demographics and statistics.
  • "Documenting the American South". University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. – Sixteen, thematic collections of sources, for the study of: Southern history, literature, and culture.
  • "North Carolina History Project". northcarolinahistory.org. – Encyclopedia of North Carolina by the John Locke Foundation.
  • Geographic data related to North Carolina at OpenStreetMap
  • "Our State". Our State. – North Carolina–focused magazine, mostly covers cultural topics. Some articles are labeled sponsored. Archives of old editions from 1933 onward are located at North Carolina Digital Collections here.
  • "U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts". U.S. Census Bureau. – Official U.S. Census Bureau website which includes population counts and demographics of the 2010, 2020, and yearly census estimates for counties, towns, cities, etc. (New Hanover County for reference).
  • "NCDOTcommunications". YouTube. – Official YouTube account of the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT). Note: expect most videos to be copyrighted.

Freely-licensed images and media

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