Current Issue
Winter 2024
Contents
- Curators’ Statement
- Our Duke: Constructing a Century
- Evolution of Duke
- Administration
- Research
- Duke and Durham
- Athletics
- Student Life
- Activism
- Student Organizations
- Arts and Performing Arts
Past Issues
Summer 2023
Contents
- Manuscript Migration: The Multiple Lives of the Rubenstein Library’s Collections
- Our Story, Our Terms: Documenting Movement Building from the Inside Out
- Research and Revelations on the Remarkable Life of Josephine Napoleon Leary
- “Let’s March Forward Together”: The Rise of Black Advertising Professionals and Consumers
- Changing the Subject
- New & Noteworthy
- Voices of Native American Activism
- How to Be a Super Researcher!
- Exhibits
Winter 2023
Contents
- Note on the Type: Diversity by Design
- Work and Love are Impossible to Tell Apart: The Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Papers
- What a Woman Can Do With a Camera: The Lisa Unger Baskin Collection of Photographs
- Future Engineers in the Archive
- New & Noteworthy
- Exhibits
- In Memoriam
Fall/Winter 2022
Contents
- Black Lives in Archives: Inviting the Community to Explore
- Franklin Research Center Commemorates 25 Years
- Witness to Guantanamo
- Nuestra Historia: Developing an Exhibit on the History of Duke’s Latinx Students
- New & Noteworthy Acquisitions from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History & Culture
Spring/Summer 2022
Contents
- Revealing More of What's Behind the Veil
- Mining the Old Card Catalog, with Code
- Flying High: The Pan American World Airways Digital Collection
- Expanding Access Through Travel Grants
- Our Story, Our Terms
- New and Noteworthy
- Events and Exhibits
Summer 2021
Contents
- Aaron’s Book
- Colonizing Latin America with Pan American World Airways
- A Year of Reflection, Adaptation and Change
- Intergenerational Collaboration Makes History
- The Enduring Power of Witness
- Remembering Bob Moses, 1935-2021
Winter 2021
Contents
- W. E. B. DuBois in the Charles N. Hunter Papers
- Clydie F. Scarborough and the Scarborough Nursery School
- Guiding Principles for Description
- We Are All Bound Up Together: Race and Resistance in the American Women’s Suffrage Movement
- A Code of Ethics for Rubenstein Library Instruction
Summer 2020
Contents
- Gearing Up to Work From Home
- Teaching Remotely, Staying Connected: Rubenstein Library Instruction Goes Online
- New Methods for Undergraduate Outreach
- Research Support in a COVID-19 World: A Series of Anecdotes
- Outliving Outbreaks: Exploring Early Efforts to Fight Epidemics
- From the Collections
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Summer 2019 — Volume 8, Issue 1
Contents
- 4 Senses of Venice
- 10 Black Students Matter: Taking Over Allen in ’69
- 12 Handle with Care: The Role of Conservation in Library Exhibitions
- 15 Now See This: A Q&A with the Rubenstein Library Exhibitions Team
- 18 How to Build a Better Book Cradle: The Pratt Solution
- 20 New and Noteworthy
- 22 The Sweet Flypaper of Life: Photographs by Roy DeCarava and Text by Langston Hughes
- 23 Events and Exhibits Calendar
Winter 2019 — Volume 7, Issue 2
Contents
- 4 The Future Is Female and So Was the Past: The Lisa Unger Baskin Collection at Duke
- 8 ‘We Must Not Call It Victory:’ New Archives Illustrate U.S. Cold War Strategy
- 10 Out of the Woods: The Duke Forest Collection
- 12 Searching for Freedom Crafters: Young Scholars Explore Rubenstein Collections
- 14 New and Noteworthy
- 16 In Memoriam: Anne Firor Scott, 1921–2019
- 19 Events and Exhibits Calendar
Summer/Fall 2018 — Volume 7, Issue 1
Contents
- 4 The SNCC Digital Gateway Celebrates Its Accomplishment
- 8 Stone By Stone: The Hidden Builders of the Gothic Wonderland
- 10 An Economical Approach to Electronic Records
- 12 Illuminating Insights: Multispectral Imaging Offers New Views of Collections
- 14 Baring It All: X-Ray Scans Reveal Anatomical Model as Never Before
- 16 New and Noteworthy
- 18 New Offerings for Graduate Students
- 23 Events and Exhibits Calendar
Winter 2018 — Vol 6, Issue 2
Contents
- 4 William Gedney Goes Global: A Case Study in Legacy Building
- 9 “One Mustn’t Forget": The Marshall T. Meyer Endowment
- 10 Race & Ethnicity in Advertising
- 13 Breaking Every Taboo: Remembering Kate Millett
- 16 Documenting the African Diaspora
- 18 A Century of Sanford
- 20 New and Noteworthy
- 22 A Growing Legacy: The Jantz Collection
- 23 Events and Exhibits Calendar
Summer 2017 — Vol 6, Issue 1
Contents
- 4 With Great Collections Come Great Responsibilities
- 7 I Sing the Body Electric: Walt Whitman and the Body
- 10 The North American Indian: Adopt this Book
- 12 Inspiration & Practical Experience: Student Reflections on Working in the Rubenstein
- 14 Duke Students Take Their Shot
- 16 New and Noteworthy: Recent Acquisitions in American History
- 18 Styron’s Nat Turner, Fifty Years On
- 19 Exhibits and Events Calendar
Winter 2017 — Vol 5, Issue 1
Contents
- 4 Women's Marches: The Long View
- 6 From California to Canada to Denmark: Extending Our Reach through Interlibrary Loan
- 8 Wish You Were Here
- 10 A Delicate Balance: Understanding the Four Humors
- 12 New and Noteworthy: Recent Acquisitions in American History
- 14 Marginal Mysteries: Reading Between the Lines of the Rubenstein Aldine Galen
- 15 Exhibits and Events Calendar
Summer 2016 — Vol 4, Issue 2
Contents
- 4 Hartman Center Celebrates 25 Years
- 8 From the Archives: Performing Arts Collaboration Makes Beautiful Music
- 12 Bringing Radio Haiti Home
- 14 In the Moment: Archiving Social Media
- 16 Archive of Documentary Arts Announces Collection Award Winners
- 19 New and Noteworthy
- 22 Duke History Revisited
- 23 Exhibits and Events Calendar
Winter 2016 — Vol 4, Issue 1
Contents
- 4 A Tour of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- 10 Heralding the Way: The Lisa Unger Baskin Collection
- 14 Adopt a Book!
- 16 One Person, One Vote: The Legacy of SNCC and the Fight for Voting Rights
- 18 Animating Anatomical Flapbooks
- 20 Hill/Garvey Archive Joins the Franklin Center Collections
- 23 Exhibits and Events Calendar
Winter 2015 — Vol 3, Issue 2
Contents
- 4 The John Hope Franklin Centenary
- 8 The Poetic Visions of William Blake
- 10 The Memory Project
- 12 Media Literacy Pioneer Jean Kilbourne
- 14 Records of Their Own Making: Meta Images in the Archive of Documentary Arts
- 18 Pioneering Broadcast Journalist Judy Woodruff
- 20 New and Noteworthy
- 22 A Lasting Legacy: Isobel Craven Drill
- 23 Exhibits and Events Calendar
Summer 2014 — Vol 3, Issue 1
Contents
- 4 Urban Reflections: Civitates Orbis Terrarum
- 8 Ex Libris: Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans
- 12 “Such Is Life” Photographs of China
- 14 The Art of Medicine
- 16 A Passion for Books: In Memory of Leland Phelps
- 20 From Pupil to Patriarch: The Story of Duke’s First International Student
- 24 New and Noteworthy
- 26 Stanley Nelson to Visit Duke in Filmmaker Series
- 27 Exhibits and Events Calendar