North Carolina History and Fiction Library

East Carolina University (go Fighting Pirates, except you can stop beating NC State in football now, thank you so very much) has released a new digital library called North Carolina History and Fiction Digital Library, available at http://www.lib.ecu.edu/ncc/historyfiction/ .

The front page shows the three parts of North Carolina -- mountains, Piedmont, and coastal plain, but the texts in this project are drawn from the coastal plain area. Pick a county either from the map or from the list. I picked Pitt. You'll get a list of titles (they can be booklets, broadsides, fiction, etc.) along with the author (if known), date, genre, and reading level.

Click on the title of the item and you'll get a thumbnail of the front page (or in the case of broadsides, the only page.) Click on it again and you'll get an enlarged version, easily readable. (Transcripts are available as single-page items but I found it just as easy to read the scanned documents.) There are over 200 texts and maps currently available at the site.

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