QC History
The footage, the maps, and the records of Charlotte's past, gathered in one place.
How would you like to explore?
The Projects
Five ways in
CrownSearch
Search 9,800+ historical Charlotte sources, with AI-assisted answers.
Visit →search.qchistory.com
QC History Map
An interactive map of Charlotte history: sites, events, and stories in place.
Visit →map.qchistory.com
Sugaw Creek Museum
A historic church museum’s collection, catalogued and published online.
Visit →sugawcreekmuseum.qchistory.com
WBTV Archives
Digitized 1970s Charlotte TV news footage, restored and streaming.
Visit →youtube @qchistory
Charlotte Events Calendar
Concerts, museum programs, and cultural events across the city in one filterable feed.
Visit →events.nolandahm.com
CMH Field Trips
A scheduling tool built for the Charlotte Museum of History.
Demo coming soonA one-person effort to keep Charlotte’s past within reach.
QC History digitizes, maps, and publishes the record of Charlotte, the Queen City. Historical sources, archival footage, and museum collections are brought online and connected to the places where they happened, so anyone can follow a thread through the city's history.
It is built and run by a working public historian, one project at a time: a search across thousands of sources, an interactive map, a museum's catalogue, decades of local news footage. The collection keeps growing.
Nolan Dahm
A public historian at the Charlotte Museum of History, Nolan founded QC History to make the city's history accessible online: digitized collections, an interactive map of the past, and decades of local footage published for everyone.
Visit nolandahm.com →