Duke University Archives

Life at Duke
A Sampling of Resources in the University Archives

The Tombs, an honorary athletic fraternity, ca. 1920

• Theme and subject collections
• Student organization records
• Other campus groups' records
• Faculty members' papers
• Honors and term papers

Report bibliography

• Reports on student life
  
• Reports on residential life
• The alcohol policy: a research guide

Theme and subject collections

• The Duke Vigil, 1968
• The Allen Building Takeover, 1969
• Tenure
• Culture, Race and Gender at Duke
• Richard M. Nixon, Law, 1937. Collection

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Records of student organizations: a selection

• Associated Students of Duke University. Records
  
• Association Internationales Etudiants en Sciences Economiques et Commerciales. Records
  
• Duke Debate Team. Records
  
• Few Federation. Records
  
• Duke Gay, Bisexual and Lesbian Association. Records
  
• Interfraternity Council. Records
  
• Mirecourt House. Records.
  
• North Carolina Public Interest Research Group. Records
  
• Panhellenic Council. Records
  
• Publications Board. Records
  
• University Union. Records
  
• WDBS [Radio station]
  
• Women's Student Government Association. Records
• YM-YWCA. Records
  
• YWCA. Records

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Faculty papers: a selection

Frances Acomb Papers (History, AAUP, AAUW)
• Katharine M. Banham Papers (Psychology)
• Frances C. Brown Papers (Chemistry, AAUP)
• Mason Crum Papers (Religion, race relations)
• William Trigg Gannaway Papers (19th century education)
• John F. Heitman Papers (19th century education, Civil War diary)
• Julia R. Grout Papers (Physical education for women)
• Calvin Bryce Hoover Papers (Economics, government service)
• Fritz London. Papers. (Physics)
• Anne Firor Scott Papers (History)
• Edgar Thompson Papers (Sociology of race relations)
• Joseph C. Wetherby. Papers (Debate club, radio station)
• William H. Glasson Papers. (Dept. of Economics, Graduate School, Phi Beta Kappa)

For the records of the University Faculty see www.duke.edu/web/Archives/holdings/faculty-recs.html

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Faculty and employee organization records: a selection

• Library Support Staff Council. Records
  
• Women's Network. Records
  
• Faculty Club records

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Honors and term papers
Many students have used the Archives' resources for course work. A bibliography of student work on Duke's history is available. Among the notable papers dealing with University life are the following:

DeHaven, Dara. On Educating Women: The Coordinate Ideal at Trinity College
and Duke University. History Honors thesis, Duke University, 1973.

Eisinger, Jana. The Divestment Campaign at Duke University: Stepchild of the
Civil Rights Movement. History Honors thesis, Duke University, 1988.

Kotelanski, Jorge. Prolonged and Patient Efforts: The Desegregation of
Duke University, 1948-1963. History Honors thesis, Duke University, 1990.

Segal, Theodore David. 'A New Genesis': The 'Silent Vigil' at Duke University,
April 5th - 12th, 1968. History Honors thesis, Duke University, 1977.

Yanella, Don. Race Relations at Duke University and the
Allen Building Takeover. History Honors thesis, Duke University, 1985.

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