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Last fall, The Devil’s Tale posted “What’s in a Name,” where readers were asked to vote on their favorite name from a list accumulated from across our collections. The winner (although votes are still being accepted!) was Dred Peacock.
Peacock graduated from Trinity College (now Duke University), married the daughter of a Trinity [...]
Continue Reading →On Sunday, Jared Harris resumes his role as Lane Pryce on Mad Men. (Read Duke Magazine‘s recent profile on Mr. Harris.)
On March 30, 1984, he was a Trinity senior, premiering his and classmate Jeff Bennett’s feature-length film, Darkmoor, at the Bryan Center. Supported by Freewater Films, the film was his [...]
Continue Reading →For those of you who are just tuning in, the Duke University Archives has entered into a friendly competition with our colleagues at the UNC University Archives. The challenge: whose Facebook page can get the most new “likes” by tip-off (7:00 PM) of the March 3rd UNC vs. Duke game. That’s Saturday night!
Our standings, [...]
Continue Reading →The recent digitization of many years of the Chanticleer, Duke University’s yearbook, has been a great benefit for both archivists and researchers.
Now, the yearly catalogs, known as Bulletins, are being digitized thanks to the Internet Archive’s Scribe machine located here at the Duke University Libraries. These newly-searchable resources [...]
Continue Reading →We note with sadness the passing of Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans. Mrs. Semans was the great-granddaughter of Washington Duke, and the granddaughter of Benjamin Duke. She came to Duke University as a 15 year-old freshman in 1935, and was an alumna of the class of 1939 of the Woman’s College. She remained a tireless [...]
Continue Reading →Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Biddle Rare Book Room
Contact Information: Amy McDonald, 919-681-7987 or amy.mcdonald(at)duke.edu
Join “Voice of the Blue Devils” Bob Harris as he shares thoughts on how Duke football has changed from the legendary 1942 Rose Bowl held in Wallace Wade Stadium [...]
Continue Reading →Working on the Economists Papers Project at the Rubenstein Library this summer introduced two Duke economics graduate students to an inspiring and impressive figure who shaped the histories of both Duke University and the United States: Juanita Morris Kreps. The description and arrangement of 58 boxes of her professional papers was [...]
Continue Reading →Early last week, friend of the RBMSCL and James B. Duke Professor of Economics Dr. Craufurd Goodwin came to us with an exciting discovery. He has kindly shared a few words about it, noting that “archives are where you find them.”
When my wife and I moved from Durham in 1977 to a property called [...]
Continue Reading →This spring, the Flat Blue Devil has been visiting lots of fun places on campus. Here at the Duke University Archives, we have Flat Duke: that is, approximately 100 hand-drawn, 23 x 30 inch property plats detailing Duke University lands around 1925-1926. These [...]
Continue Reading →And you thought only children get to go on field trips?
Today, the staff of the Duke University Archives paid a visit to Maplewood Cemetery and the graves of the people whose papers we work with every day. We started with a visit to the Dukes.
It’s very sunny on [...]
Continue Reading →Hello!
Welcome to the blog of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University.
Questions? E-mail us at special-collections(at)duke.edu.
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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