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 Special Collection Library acquires, preserves and makes available to a large population of researchers published and unpublished materials that reflect the public and private lives of women, past and present.

More about the Bingham Center

Apply for a Mary Lily Research Grant

The Bingham Center is now accepting applications for the 2010-2011 Mary Lily Research Grants. These grants support students, faculty, and independent researchers who wish to travel to Duke to use our women's history collections. Deadline: January 29, 2010.

Join the Bingham Center Email List

Keep up to date with news and events from the Bingham Center by subscribing to our email list. Subscribe online or send an email to sympa@duke.edu with SUBSCRIBE BINGHAMCENTER in either the subject or body of the message. You can also join the Bingham Center on Facebook. 

Explore Past Programs Online

Photos and videos from the 2009 symposium "What Does It Mean To Be An Educated Woman" are now online. In 2008, the Bingham Center celebrated 20 years of documenting women's lives with featured speakers Sallie Bingham, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Paula Burger, and Jeanette Stokes. Video interviews with these speakers and other notable people from Bingham Center history are online.

Highlights from exhibits created for 2007's "Neither Model Nor Muse" are featured in an online gallery. Photos from this symposium are also online via Flickr. Selected programs from the 2003 symposium on Abortion: Research, Ethics, and Activism and the 2005 symposium on Generational Feminisms are also available online.