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MosaicNC

A digital publishing venture of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History.

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About Us

It is the primary charge of MosaicNC to digitally publish exhibits on various special topics and future installments of two long-running projects of the Historical Publications Office: the Colonial Records of North Carolina and the Governors’ Papers Project. Through this digital medium, we aim to provide free and open access to our work for the educational benefit of present and future generations of North Carolinians.

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Exhibits

Explore the History of North Carolina

Just as technology has allowed MosaicNC to bring our scholarly editions into the digital age, it also allows us to publish other thematic exhibits about the state’s past.

Gov. Thomas W. Bickett

The War Governor: Thomas Walter Bickett, 1917-1921

Few of the Historical Publications Office's special publications have been of more significance to students of recent history than the documentary volumes relating to gubernatorial administrations.

Ed White during the first American spacewalk

North Carolina and the Space Race

Learn about the various contributions of North Carolina scientists, engineers, pilots, and more to Projects Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. Trace the influences of this golden age of the American space program on future generations of Tar Heel space explorers.

Coast of North Carolina

Papers of Arthur Dobbs

Arthur Dobbs (1689-1765) served as the Royal Governor of the North Carolina Colony from 1754-64. An Irishman by birth, Dobbs saw his adopted home through a period of immense upheaval. His term is marked by the French and Indian War and colonists' changing relations with American Indians.

Photograph of a pumpkin patch

The Gourd Patch Conspiracy

This Gourd Patch Affair, or the Lewellen Conspiracy, as a failed uprising against North Carolina's Patriot government in the summer of 1777. It took place in in northeastern North Carolina in and around Gates, Martin, Bertie, Chowan, and Halifax counties. This edition is forthcoming.

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Recent Blog Articles

    North Carolina and the Space Race

    What does North Carolina have to do with that? Some form of that question is what I typically receive when I tell folks about my work on the state’s role in the space race. And, to be fair, it’s a valid response. All the launches occurred in Florida. Mission Control was, and still is, in Houston. The rocketry needed to launch American astronauts into orbit was developed in Huntsville, Alabama.…

    Bringing the 18th century into the 21st

    In his introduction to the new second series of Colonial Records of North Carolina, Archives and History Director Christopher Crittenden wrote: “This new series is definitely needed.” Today, a little more than fifty-seven years later, Dr. Crittenden’s sentiments remain just as true. The Carolina Charter Tercentenary Commission launched the new series of Colonial Records in an effort to…
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