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Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture

in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture

Welcome to the Bingham Center

The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture in Duke's Rubenstein Library acquires, preserves and makes available to a large population of researchers published and unpublished materials that reflect the public and private lives of women, past and present.

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Mary Lily Research Grants

We are now accepting applications for 2013 Mary Lily Research Grants. The Sallie Bingham Center provides travel grants of up to $1000 for researchers whose work would benefit from access to the women's history collections held at Duke's David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. This year's deadline will be March 29, 2012 (by 5 p.m. EST). Recipients will be announced by April 30, 2013.

Application and more details about grants

New E-book Published

The Bingham Center has published the first e-book from the Duke University Libraries, What Does it Mean to be an Educated Woman: Conversations on Activism, Scholarship, and Pedagogy. Download the e-book here.

Rubenstein Library Renovation News

Our reading room is now open in its new location on the 3rd floor of Perkins Library. Planning a research visit? Please request your materials online at least 4 days in advance. Keep up with the latest renovation news by visiting our renovation news website.

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Upcoming Events

Robin Morgan & Marie Anderson: The Women’s Pages & The Women’s Liberation Movement

Thursday, April 18, 3:00 p.m., Perkins Library 318 (Rubenstein Classroom)

Please join us for a talk by Kimberly Wilmot Voss, Assistant Professor and Area Coordinator of Journalism, University of Central Florida. This program address the intersection of the women’s pages of newspapers and women’s liberation leaders in the 1960s and 70s, and the differences in coverage by those women journalists compared to the mainstream press. Voss is a recipient of a Mary Lily Research Grant from the Sallie Bingham Center. Light refreshments will be provided.

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