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As this semester winds down, don’t just hit the books. Make one!
For the conclusion of this semester’s Book + Art festival, undergraduate students from Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are invited to participate in a juried exhibition of student artists’ books, to be held at UNC-Chapel [...]
Continue Reading →On Friday, library staff members and UNC SILS students gathered for an impromptu gallery talk for our new exhibit, “Book + Art: Artists’ books from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture,” led by curators Christine Wells and Kelly Wooten and exhibits coordinator [...]
Continue Reading →Date: 13 October 2010-9 January 2011
Location and Time: Perkins Library Gallery during library hours
Contact Information: Kelly Wooten, 919-660-5967 or kelly.wooten(at)duke.edu
During your next visit to Perkins-Bostock Library, be sure to stop by the Perkins Library Gallery to see the eclectic selection of artists’ books on display in “Book + Art: [...]
Continue Reading →The United Nations Conference on International Organization officially convened between April 25 and June 26, 1945 in San Francisco. On 26 June 1945, delegations from 50 countries signed the United Nations Charter, a constituent treaty by which all member nations are bound in an international body and in which organization’s mission and commitment [...]
Continue Reading →The artistic response to societal tragedy is always a difficult balance: how can art contribute to understanding and interpreting, without aestheticizing suffering? In the past decade, films, novels, and other creative approaches to events such as the Holocaust, 9/11, and the conflict in Darfur have provoked controversy and debate about art’s place in the discussion [...]
Continue Reading →Hello!
Welcome to the blog of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University.
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New Rubenstein Library Materials Added to the Internet Archive- The Old flag [serial] May 2, 2012
- Trial by jury. The only genuine verbatim report of the speeches of Messrs. Hunt, Watson, Thistlewood, Preston, Clark, and others, delivered at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, July 21, 1817, at a dinner given to celebrate the aquittal of the state prisoners. By an eminent short hand writer. Including some interesting particulars relative to Watson, Junior, as narrated by Dr. Watson, tending to exculpate his character from the attack on Mr. Platt May 2, 2012
- The log of the "Thomas", July 23 to August 21, 1901 May 2, 2012
- Wer ist Schuld am Kriege? Rede des deutschen Reichskanzlers im Hauptausschusse des deutschen Reichtags am 9. november 1916 April 23, 2012
- Sound money. Bimetalism [!] a necessity of the world. The existing ratio of parity, 16, 15 1/2, 15 to 1, unalterable. The United States competent to re-establish bimetalism [!] by re-opening her mints to silver, without foreign co-operation April 23, 2012
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