North Carolina Miscellany is a blog produced, edited, and maintained by the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The North Carolina Collection, located in historic Wilson Library, is the state’s premier collection of published materials documenting the history, literature, and culture of the Tar Heel state. The collection is free and open to the public.

The North Carolina Miscellany will include regular posts discussing new and upcoming books on North Carolina topics, state history in the news, treasures from the stacks of the North Carolina Collection, and general “Tar Heelia.”

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University of North Carolina
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Other North Carolina Miscellanies

We are aware of at least a couple of other publications that have used the title “North Carolina Miscellany.” Richard Walser, longtime English professor at North Carolina State University and noted authority on Tar Heel literature, edited The North Carolina Miscellany (UNC Press, 1962), a collection of short sketches on North Carolina people, places, incidents, folklore, and “oddments and observations.” Walser’s description of the book might well apply to this website: “This book of miscellaneous selections about North Carolina or by North Carolinians was projected on the assumption that there are thousands of readers, like me, who have an unashamed curiosity about what has transpired on the byways as well as the thoroughways of life in our state.”

The earliest publication by this title that we could find is an Edenton newspaper published in 1832 and 1833. This Miscellany was published weekly and was devoted to “general news, politics, literature, religion, commerce, and agriculture.”