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Spying on Galileo
On Friday, April 8th, Professor Matteo Gilebbi’s Italian 22 course, offered by the Romance Studies Department, held a special lesson at the RBMSCL. The class was led by guest speaker Professor Mattia...
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Instruction is Sweet!
Photo by Bill Fick. 85 classes! The RBMSCL had another packed semester of instruction, as our librarians welcomed a group of fledgling Walt Whitman scholars from North Carolina State University, two...
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Clue: Visit the Duke University Archives
This year, the Duke University Archives participated in the Duke University Union’s 2nd Annual Homecoming Scavenger Hunt. The hunt was a great opportunity to bring new students into the RBMSCL and...
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The Anatomy of Anatomy Day
Monday was the annual Anatomy Day visit to the History of Medicine Collections. This is one of my favorite times of the year! In the fall, all of the first year medical students here at Duke—about one...
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Vive la France! et Manuscripts!
A few months ago, I processed the James Ludovic Lindsay Collection of French Manuscripts, which is by far the largest collection I have processed since I started working in Technical Services in...
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A Hidden Map
For the past two years, I’ve been working with Technical Services on the Frank Baker Collection of British Methodism and Wesleyana. Baker, a religion professor at Duke, was the preeminent scholar on...
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George Cruikshank & Falstaff’s Famous Follies: A Series of Autograph Prints...
Artist George Cruikshank Among the many fascinating documents, portraits, and letters of early Methodist preachers and missionaries in the Frank Baker Collection of Wesleyana and British Methodism are...
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Wooshes, Whistles, Crowd Roars, and Seal Screams
The name Freewater Films is perhaps best known for the film series it puts on in the Bryan Center. But in addition to these screenings, it is also responsible for providing workshops and support for...
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Haitian Children in Guantanamo
Boy with fish in Guantanamo Camp #9, ca. 1994-95. From the Americans for Immigrant Justice Records. We recently completed processing the Americans for Immigrant Justice (AIJ) Records. Formerly the...
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Radio in the Rwandan Genocide
The Rwandan audiotapes of the International Monitor Institute (IMI) records are comprised almost entirely of the transcripts of radio broadcasts translated from Kinyarwanda into French and English....
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Student Takes on Living Groups, 1992 and Now
This spring I assisted my supervisor in processing the Duke Student Government (DSG) Records. One day he called me over to look at a report he had found called “A Color-Coded Guide to Campus Living...
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Browsing the Chanticleer
In August of this past year, I was hired as the student assistant for the Duke University Archives. The position is a thrill because it enables me to get paid for a hobby of mine: learning about Duke’s...
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Shout out to our Student Workers: Taylor
Every year we rely on a group of dedicated undergraduate student workers who do a little bit of everything to keep the Rubenstein Library running smoothly, but you might not know it since they’re...
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Shout out to our Student Works: Rebecca
Every year we rely on a group of dedicated undergraduate student workers who do a little bit of everything to keep the Rubenstein Library running smoothly, but you might not know it since they’re...
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“From Sit-Ins to Hashtags” on Display at Perkins Library
Culture Clash is a series of exhibits, created by the Center for Multicultural Affairs (CMA), traditionally hosted in the Alcove outside of the CMA Lounge. Culture Clash aims to provide multicultural...
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A Bitter Look at the Sweet History of Brown Sugar
Amari Victoria Stokes was a student in Kelly Alexander’s Our Culinary Cultures course offered in the Fall 2015 semester in the Center for Documentary Studies. Utilizing Rubenstein Library resources,...
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The Anne Roney Fountain: Revising the Record
Sometimes you set out to write a pleasant blog post about a turn-of-the-last-century Trinity College student’s short stories and end up correcting a moment of Duke University history you didn’t even...
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Duke History Revisited Round-Up: Sept. 19th
Date: Monday, September 19, 2016 Time: 7:00 PM Location: Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room, Rubenstein Library Room 153 Contact: Valerie Gillispie, valerie.gillispie@duke.edu This summer, the...
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Uncovering Women’s History at Duke: A Scholars’ Brownbag with Hayley Farless...
Date: Thursday, October 27, 2016 Time: 12:00-1:30 PM Location: Rubenstein 249 (Carpenter Conference Room) RSVP via Facebook (optional) Five Women at Duke University, 1976. From the University Archives...
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Oct. 11th: Looking Forward: Duke History Revisited 2017
Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 Time: 5:00 PM Location: Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room, Rubenstein Library Room 153 Contact: Valerie Gillispie, valerie.gillispie@duke.edu This summer, our...
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