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300 volunteers helped transcribe colonial court records, including property, labor, gender roles, and trade goods information.
On May 14, 2021, Governor Roy Cooper signed an executive order lifting face coverings and other emergency restrictions after COVID-19.
Enhance your own family archive with tips from the pros!
May is National Preservation Month and State Archives staff want to help you preserve family memorabilia. Staff with expertise in documents, photographs, audio-visual recordings, and electronic records (including social media) will discuss how to keep those types of materials safe for years to come. After brief presentations, staff will also address your preservation questions.
Panelists:
Examine She Changed the World history projects from oral, photographs, lives of aid workers, and how to research women’s history.
State Archives public research spaces in Raleigh, the Western Regional Archives in Asheville and the Outer Banks History Center will open to the public on a limited basis Nov. 12 with some new procedures in place to help ensure the safety of staff and visitors, including:
Your Story is North Carolina's Story. This community-based imitative means to collect materials that document the COVID-19 pandemic.
The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting the right of women to vote. The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources celebrates this milestone with “She Changed the World: North Carolina Women Breaking Barriers,” a series of public programs and activities to honor the achievements of women in our state.
October is Archives Month in North Carolina. The State Archives houses over a hundred million items dating from 1584 to the present day.
Photograph, high-resolution, of a group of African Army soldiers from the 364th Infantry Regiment (Colored), 92nd Infantry Division, posing with heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis (second from left, foreground) during his troop morale visit to the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, in the winter of 1944-1945 during World War II. Pictured with Louis is 1st Lt. Elmer P. Gibson (second from right, foreground), chaplain of the 364th Infantry Regiment [circa 1944].