The Rubenstein Library is pleased to announce this year’s winners of the Chester P. Middlesworth Awards!
The Middlesworth Awards were established to encourage and recognize excellence of research, analysis, and writing by Duke University students in the use of primary sources and rare materials held by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & [...]
Continue Reading →Today, the Rubenstein Library launched a new online registration and item requesting system!
Some of the exciting features of this new system:
No more paper forms! New researchers will register online and returning researchers will re-register in our new system. (Don’t worry: it’s quick & easy!) Registration is shared with [...]
Continue Reading →Every generation has its heartthrobs. Think Justin Bieber, Robert Pattinson, Tristan Wilds, and Chris Hemsworth. History junkies realize that handsome dudes are nothing new, as demonstrated by the tumblr site My Daguerreotype Boyfriend.
Those of us in the Rubenstein find our own John Wetmore Hinsdale pretty irresistible. In 1861 he left The University [...]
Continue Reading →The Rubenstein Library at Duke University will acquire the papers of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, a scholar, writer and theologian who is widely recognized as one of the most influential religious leaders of the 20thcentury, the school announced Monday.
Heschel was a highly visible and charismatic leader in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements. [...]
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In last month’s update for the progress of the CCC Project at Duke, I discussed how an interest group tried to lobby Congress to oppose civil rights reform. In that case, the National Restaurant Association lobbied Congress to block a piece of legislation that it felt would harm its members. Contacting officials [...]
Continue Reading →This weekend, many folks will celebrate Father’s Day. I recently processed the personal papers of A. Hollis Edens, Duke President from 1949-1960, and was left teary-eyed by letters written between him and his only child, Mary Ann. The letters demonstrate such a strong father-daughter bond and provide insight into a closeness that spanned [...]
Continue Reading →The Rubenstein Library is pleased to announce that we’ve digitized a wonderful publication written by Duke’s very own Maria Doerfler, Emanuel Fiano, and Lucas Van Rompay. The publication features erudite bibliographic descriptions of several Syriac manuscripts and books from the Rubenstein collections, accompanied by photographic illustrations. The work is an annotated catalog from [...]
Continue Reading →The Robert F. Durden Prize and Chester P. Middlesworth Award were established at the Duke Library to reward excellence in research and writing. If you’re a Duke student, consider submitting a paper for one of these prizes!
The Robert F. Durden Prize recognizes undergraduates’ excellence in research, including their analysis, evaluation and synthesis of sources, [...]
Continue Reading →Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Biddle Rare Book Room, Perkins Library
Contact: Meg Brown, 919-681-2071 or meg.brown@duke.edu
Please join us on Wednesday, April 25, for a lecture by Dean Edward Buckley titled The Future of Medicine: Educating the Physician of 2020. Dr. Buckley is Vice Dean of Medical Education at [...]
Continue Reading →It was written of the poet Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, 39-65 C.E.) by his 17th century English translator Thomas May that when Lucan was born, “bees swarmed about the childes cradle, and pressed in clusters toward his mouth. A happy presage (as the learned interpreted it) of his future wit….”
Lucan was a Roman poet [...]
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New Rubenstein Library Materials Added to the Internet Archive- Annual catalogue of the S.P. Lees Collegiate Institute of Central University at Jackson, Kentucky [serial] June 17, 2013
- Annual catalogue of the S.P. Lees Collegiate Institute of Central University at Jackson, Kentucky [serial] June 17, 2013
- Verfassung der Deutschen Schützen-Gessellschaft in Charleston, Süd-Carolina. Gegründet am 21. Mai 1855. Gesetze revidirt Mai 1868 und Januar 1872 June 17, 2013
- Address of Senator Charles A. Culberson at the Iroquois Club Banquet, Chicago, April 13, 1904 June 17, 2013
- The book of nature : containing information for young people who think of getting married : on the philosophy of procreation and sexual intercourse, showing how to prevent conception and to avoid child-bearing : also, rules for management during labor and child-birth June 17, 2013
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