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- January 21, 2009 - Checkout the Most Exciting Courses on Campus: Spring 2009 History Courses
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/12/09 15:22:48
View the highlights at http://www-history.aas.duke.edu/news/sp09courses.php - October 01, 2009 - Graduate Certificate in Anthropology and History is now available
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/09/04 11:55:08
The Graduate Certificate in Anthropology and History program will launch in fall 2009 with 24 affiliated faculty.
For more information, see www.duke.edu/~wmr/anthandhist.htm
- January 03, 2009 - Saturday, January 3, 2009 AHA Joint Reception 5:30-7:30
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/12/09 11:28:44
The History Departments at Duke and UNC will hold a joint reception at the AHA meeting in New York City, Hilton Hotel, Second floor, Beekman Parlor from 5:30 to 7:30 on Saturday, January 3, 2009. - December 05, 2008 - Friday, December 5 - Second Latin American & Caribbean Graduate Student Workshop - 3:00 - 5:30 Room 229 Carr
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/11/24 16:04:43
Discussing the following advance-circulated papers by two Duke ABDs:
Alejandro Velasco (Gallatin School-New York University), "'A Weapon as Powerful as the Vote': Urban Protest and Electoral Politics in Venezuela, 1978-1983"
Bryan Pitts (Duke), "The Audacity to Strong-Arm the Generals: Paulo Maluf and the 1978 Sao Paulo Gubernatorial Contest"
There is no oral presentation of the papers given that they are circulated in advance (the papers will be available on 28 November, six days in advance of the meeting; please rsvp).
• It begins with each of the two presenters offering a reading and comment on the other paper
• It then move from one grad student to next for their comments with the attending faculty joining in once we reach general discussion.
• It will be followed by a reception and party (details forthcoming)
NOTE: Please RSVP to jdfrench@duke.edu to confirm your participation.
The event is funded by the History Department Colloquium and Speakers Committee and is open to all interested faculty and grad students in all fields. All students in residence are expected to attend and several of our ABDs in the field, including Kristin and Katharine, promise to put in their two cents as well. - November 07, 2008 - November 7, 2008 - Freedom Fighters: Regime Change and U.S. Foreign Policy - East Duke 204B
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/10/30 11:10:14
Keynote Presentation: 9:30-11:00
Greg Grandin (NYU): Empire's Workshop: The New Deal to the New Right, Latin America to Iraq
Session one (11:15-1:15): U.S. in the Middle East
Salim Yaqub (UCSB): "Openings and Closings: The United States and the Arab World in the 1970s."
Commentator: miriam cooke (Duke, Lit & AMES)
Session two (2:30-4:30: Plan Colombia
Diana Marcela Roja (Universidad Nacional de Colombia): "Transforming Interventions: US Policy in Colombia, 1998-2008." Commentator: Robin Kirk (Duke, DHRC)
Closing discussion: 4:45-5:30
Reception to follow.
Refreshments and lunch with be provided.
Sponsored by: Duke University History Department, Marxism & Society, Trent Foundation, and Arts & Science Faculty Research Council
For more information, contact: Jocelyn Olcott, (olcott@duke.edu) - January 09, 2009 - January 9, 2008 - Writing Atlantic History: A Workshop - 12-2 Room 229 Carr
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/12/22 15:16:50
Jean Hébrard teaches History at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and will be visiting Duke in January as part of an exchange with the Ecole. With Rebecca Scott, he is writing a book entitled Freedom Papers (under contract with Harvard University Press), tracing the history of a family from Africa and Haiti to Louisiana, Cuba, France and Belgium. In this workshop, Jean will share several choice documents about the family, and discuss the challenges and possibilities of combining the approaches of micro-history and Atlantic history.
Facilitated by Peter Wood and Laurent Dubois
Lunch will be provided. - October 17, 2008 - Triangle Legal History Seminar
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/11/13 11:29:47
Friday, December 5, 2008 - National Humanities Center
Mary Beth Basile, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
UNC - Chapel Hill
" 'I Was Given a So-Called Hearing': The Treatment of Italians during World War II and the Constitution's Promise of Civilian Control"
All seminars are 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. - November 2008 - A President for All Americans
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/11/13 11:33:35
Dr. John Hope Franklin discussed the election of Barack Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpUTRbXTRos
- Librarian Office Hours
Carla Ivey, for grad, 2008/10/01 11:47:44
Need help finding primary sources for your history paper? Can't figure out where to begin your research for HI195S? Stop by Carr 121 on Tuesdays between 1:00 and 3:00 to get personalized assistance from a reference librarian who specializes in history. No appointment necessary. No question too big or too small. Save time, ask a librarian! - October 01, 2008 - 2008-09 History Colloquiums
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/03/16 09:37:48
March 23 - Claudia Koonz, Professor of History
The Muslim Headscarf in France: A Word, A Thing, and an Image.
11:30 in 229 Carr Bldg - September 24, 2008 - Triangle Labor and Civil Rights Working Group
Carla Ivey, for grad, 2009/03/31 11:19:26
April 22, 2009 - Film Screening and Discussion, UNC, Love House, 6pm
The LCRWG seeks to foster greater dialogue between activists and scholars on issues related to civil rights and labor in the Triangle and beyond. - September 19, 2008 - Triangle Seminar on the History of the Military, War, and Society
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/10/30 10:59:29
Friday, November 21, 2008
John Lynn
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
"Gauging Women's Participation in Early Modern European Armies: Demostrable Certainties, Reasonable Inferences, and Sheer Speculations"
The seminar begins at 4:15 and is in Room 229 Carr Building.
Refreshments will be served afterwards.
Pre-circulated papers are available a week in advance at fbruehoe@email.unc.edu
For more information see the website: www.unc.edu/mhss/.
Co-sponsored by the Triangle Institute for Security Studies - October 10, 2008 - Duke/UNC Southern Historical Association Reception
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/09/29 12:53:53
Friday, October 10, 2008
Sheraton Hotel, Maurepas Room
New Orleans
5:00-7:00
- October 26, 2008 - Duke/UNC Jewish Studies Seminar
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/03/31 11:18:01
April 19, 2009
Motti Inbari, Brandeis University
"Religious Zionism and the Temple Mount Dilemma."
Seminar is on Sunday at The Freeman Center for Jewish Life at Duke University at 3:00 pm. - November 16, 2008 - Intellectual History Seminar Program
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/03/31 11:18:56
April 12, 2009
Amir Minsky (University of Pennsylvania): Revolution, Urban Experience, and the Making of Modernity in Early Nineteenth-Century German Cities
Seminar is on Sunday at the National Humanities Center at 7:00 pm. - Request Duke Participation in U-Grad History Journal
Carla Ivey, 2008/05/13 11:58:48
Columbia Undergraduate Journal of History is currently soliciting submissions for the Fall 2008 issue. Any questions you have may be addressed to reb2123@columbia.edu or cujh@columbia.edu
Undergraduates and professors, please submit papers to the Columbia Undergraduate Journal of History. Articles submitted to the Columbia Undergraduate Journal of History may be either research or historiography papers. All undergraduate papers submitted to the Journal must be nominated by a faculty member for recognition as outstanding and exemplary undergraduate scholarship. All nominated papers will be posted on the website of the Columbia Undergraduate Journal of History, at cujh.columbia.edu. From the many nominated papers, the editors select five to six articles to be published in the Journal, and three authors are invited to the Herbert Aptheker Undergraduate History Conference at Columbia University to give talks on the papers published in the Columbia Undergraduate Journal of History. The authors invited to the History Conference receive an honorarium of at least one-hundred-and-fifty dollars. - April 10, 2008 - April 10, 2008 - At the River I Stand - 6:00 - 8:00
Carla Ivey, for grad, 2008/03/31 11:30:01
The Triangle Labor and Civil Rights Working Group, the African American History Working Group, and Student Action with Workers
Presents a film and discussion of "At the River I Stand"
The Powerful Documentary of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Final Crusade
6-8pm. April 10, 2008 at the Love House and Hutchins Forum 410 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill
Kindly RSVP orion.teal@duke.edu
Commemorating the 40-year anniversary of Dr. King's death. - April 11, 2008 - April 11 - Examining Encounters: Strangers in Strange Land - 229 Carr - 3:30-5:30
Carla Ivey, for grad, 2008/04/07 10:33:21
Janet Ewald, Department of History, Duke University
"'No Objection to a Wandering Unsettled Life': African Slaves and Freedmen in the Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Indian Ocean World."
Elizabeth Fenn, Department of History, Duke University
"Madoc on the Missouri: Searching for America's Welsh Indians"
Andrew Byers, Department of History, Duke University "Prostitution as a 'Military Necessity': The Politics of Sexuality, Morality, and Venereal Disease During the American Occupation of the Philippines, 1898-1918"
Willeke Sandler, Department of History, Duke University "Creating Future Colonists: Colonialist Discourse, National Socialism, and the Rendsburg Colonial School for Women, 1926-1945"
Chair: Justin Ward, Department of History, Duke University
This is the third annual workshop sponsored by the Duke Department of History second-year graduate cohort that strives to bring together graduate students and faculty to present and discuss their research interests and current projects. This year, our workshop will explore personal and societal encounters with the marketplace, with the state and its institutions, and with other people, societies, and places. How do these encounters leave the participants changed? How do individuals and societies define themselves in relation to the market, the state, or the strangers they encounter? How does the historian approach these questions? - April 18, 2008 - Research Triangle Seminar in the History of the Military, War, and Society
Carla Ivey, for grad, 2008/04/08 11:31:07
PRESENTS
Sigrun Haude (University of Cincinnati)
Dealing with the Reality of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648): The Story of Two Religious Women
Friday, April 18, 2008 4:00 - 6:00 pm, Duke University
East Campus, Carr Building, Room 229, 114 Campus Drive
The seminar starts at 4:15 pm. Refreshments will be served before the seminar.
A pre-circulated paper is available a week in advance at dirk.bonker@duke.edu.
The presentation concentrates on two autobiographical documents, the diaries of Klara Staiger, prioress of the Augustinian cloister Mariastein near Eichstaett, and the recordings of Anna Maria Junius, nun of the Dominican cloister Heiligengrab in Bamberg. By looking at personal accounts of the war, we turn the focus on the individual, and, with the two religious women, on a couple of very select persons. However, their diaries and chronicles regularly direct their attention beyond the personal and thus reflect a wider circle of contemporaries. A critical reading of these two testimonies in the broader context of other contemporary voices reveals both the commonalty and the uniqueness of their experience, and sheds light on how people managed to survive the war. Klara Staiger led her convent through flights, the destruction and rebuilding of their cloister, poverty, and other frightful experiences of the war, while Anna Maria Junius was part of a group of nuns that held out in their convent as the war raged on around them. Though their situations were quite different, the two women showed great pragmatism in navigating the war and a willingness to exploit all options - orthodox and unorthodox - to ensure their survival.
SIGRUN HAUDE is Associate Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati. Her main fields of research are the history of reformation, Early Modern European History, and the history of Christianity, European History, in particular the history of Anabaptism and the Radical Reformation, and the history of the Thirty Years' War. Her publications include: In the Shadow of "Savage Wolves": Anabaptist Munster and the German Reformation during the 1530s (Boston, 2000). - May 10, 2008 - Fort Fisher State Historic Site - Mary Holloway Seasonal Interpreter
Carla Ivey, 2008/04/01 10:22:12
The Mary Holloway Seasonal Interpreter is a summer position that will assist with daily tours, visitor services, weapons demonstrations, and other special projects. It is a 35 hour a week position, Wednesdays through Sundays, from mid-May to mid-August. Pay is $6.15 per hour.
Gain invaluable experience working in public history.
Applicants should fax or email a resume to Amy Manor Thornton. State applications are available on request.
Fort Fisher State Historic Site is a part of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources.
E-mail: amy.thornton@ncmail.net
Phone: (910) 458-5538
Fax: (910) 458-0477 - March 31, 2008 - Anne Firor Scott Award Winners
Carla Ivey, for grad, 2008/04/03 09:35:40
Congratulations to the following Anne Firor Scott award winners:
Katharine French-Fuller, "The Commercialization of Daily Life: A History of Domestic Cultures and Technologies in Post-1960 Argentina."
Reena Goldthree, "Shifting Loyalties: War and the Gendered Politics of Patriotism in the British Caribbean, 1900-1938."
Cynthia Greenlee-Donnell, "The Geographies of Home: Somali Women Refugees, Race, and Resettlement in the U.S. South."
Jacob Remes, "When the State Blew Away: Survival and Organization After Two Progressive-Era Urban Disasters."
Danielle Terrazas Williams, "Few But Not So Far Between: Free Black Women of Means in Colonial Veracruz." - Perkins Libraries' Durden Prize
Carla Ivey, 2008/03/26 10:47:29
Perkins Libraries will be awarding the Durden Prize for the first time this fall. The prize honors undergraduates who make effective use of Duke's general library collections and services and demonstrate excellence in research, including outstanding analysis, evaluation and synthesis of sources.
The Durden Prize, named in honor of Robert F. Durden, professor emeritus of history, will be awarded annually to one undergraduate in each of three categories: first and second year students; third and fourth year students; and fourth year students writing honors theses. Applicants will supply copies of the papers or projects they wish to submit for competition, cover sheets (form may be found online), faculty statements of support (again, form my be found online) and 500-word essays on their research strategies. Winning papers will be selected by a committee of faculty and librarians and will be announced in fall 2008. The three winning students will be honored at a reception during Parents and Family Weekend in October 2008 and will receive cash prizes of $1000.
Award guidelines and entry forms may be found online at http://library.duke.edu/research/awards/. If you have additional questions about this award, feel free to contact Emily Daly at emily.daly@duke.edu.
Good Luck! - March 31, 2008 - 2007-08 History Colloquium - Anna Krylova - 229 Carr - 12:00 Noon
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/03/26 09:28:32
Professor Krylova will be talking about her new book, which is near completion, "Women in Combat: Writing Shared History of Violence of the Eastern Front, 1930-1980s."
The colloquium will be in 229 Carr at 12:00 noon and lunch will be served. This talk is open to all faculty, graduate students, and visitors. - March 28, 2008 - March 28 - Examining Encounters Workshop - 229 Carr - 3:30
Carla Ivey, for grad, 2008/03/26 10:37:31
Amy Williams, Department of History, Duke University "Appropriating Supranationalism: Representing the League of Nations in Upper-Level German Gymnasium Textbooks, 1920-1968"
Anna Krylova, Department of History, Duke University "'Woman-Soldier' as a State and Popular Category of Mobilization in the Soviet Union, 1941-1945"
Liz Shesko, Department of History, Duke University "'Who Will Speak for the Indian'?: Representations of Indigeneity at Bolivia's 1945 Indigenous Congress"
John French, Department of History, Duke University "When the State Reaches Out/Down to the Poor: Combating Hunger During the First Presidential Administration of Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, 2002-06."
Chair: Stephan Isernhagen, Department of History, Duke University
This is the third annual workshop sponsored by the Duke Department of History second-year graduate cohort that strives to bring together graduate students and faculty to present and discuss their research interests and current projects. This year, our workshop will explore personal and societal encounters with the marketplace, with the state and its institutions, and with other people, societies, and places. How do these encounters leave the participants changed? How do individuals and societies define themselves in relation to the market, the state, or the strangers they encounter? How does the historian approach these questions? - March 27, 2008 - March 27 - Jacques Revel Lecture - Room 240 Franklin Center - 5:30
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/03/25 16:43:19
Jacques Revel is a directeur d'etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, where he also served as the school's president from 1995 to 2004.
In addition, he is the Global Distinguished Professor of History and the Institute of French Studies at New York University. He is known for his significant contributions to the Annales school and also, more recently, for the promotion of microhistory, Revel's work focuses on social history, cultural forms and practices, and the Ancient Regime.
In 2006, he published Un Parcours Critique (Galaade Editions). He is currently at work at on a project that examines the link between religious practices, political and philosophical critiques of religion, and historical thought.
LECTURE: Thursday, March 27
5:30 pm (refreshments begin at 5:00 pm)
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Free parking available after 4pm at the Pickens Clinic lot across the street
"BROWN BAG" LUNCH DISCUSSION: Friday, March 28
11:00 am—1:00 pm
Faculty Commons, West Union Building, Upper Level
Lunch provided, please RSVP to ham5@duke.edu by March 24
A selection of Professor Revel's articles and a bibliography are available on Blackboard
(search "Jacques Revel" in course search box)
These events are free and open to the public
For more information, please email Heather Mallory at ham5@duke.edu - March 27, 2008 - March 27 - Kristin Wintersteen - Franklin Center - Room 028 - 4:30-6:00
Carla Ivey, for grad, 2008/03/25 16:29:48
"The Stench of Success: Anchovies, protein politics, and the making of a fishmeal empire in Peru and Chile, 1950-2000" presentation by Kristin Wintersteen (PhD candidate, Duke Department of History)
Kristin will present some preliminary findings from her dissertation research, which traces the history of the fishmeal industry as Peru and Chile grappled with environmental limits and powerful interest groups within a shifting international political, socio-economic, and legal landscape since the 1950s. Fishmeal is a flour-like substance used in fertilizers and high-protein animal feeds. This global commodity helped fuel the rapid expansion of chicken, hog, and fish farming in the developed world after World War II and catapulted Peru and Chile into the ranks of the world's top fishing nations. Kristin's research seeks to understand how actors in these two states--linked by a shared marine ecosystem and the devastating consequences of El Niño--responded to common challenges, and how together they shaped this massive protein transfer along global food commodity chains from the world's most productive marine ecosystem to the dinner plates of first-world consumers. - March 27, 2008 - March 27-29 - FNI International Conference
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/03/26 09:42:29
Enduring Loss in Early Modern Germany
5th FNI International Conference
Duke University, March 27-29, 2008
How do societies cope with loss - recurrent and devastating losses in all spheres of everyday life? The 5th FNI conference March 27-29 explores how the experience of loss -- political, material, economic, bodily, spiritual, and intellectual -- shapes societies and cultures in an unstable and changing world. It goes without saying that loss was and still is the crucible of making modern societies and cultures. This interdisciplinary conference explores how the part of Europe that contributed so much to the making of modern politics, culture and religious life -- German-speaking Central Europe -- came to terms creatively with recurrent and devastating losses.
Colleagues from all disciplines are invited to attend sessions of the conference. Approximately 80 speakers -- about 30 of them from Europe -- will present papers. Among the highlights are plenary addresses by several highly regarded scholars, including:
Hans Medick (History, Göttingen), "Ways of Viewing Catastrophe: The Experience and Memory of the Thirty Years War"
Jeffrey Chipps Smith (Art History, University of Texas, Austin), "Did Dürer Die? Artistic Loss and Dilemmas of Cultural Identity"
Jill Bepler (History and Literature, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel), "Enduring Loss: Memorializaing Women"
Christopher Ocker (Theology, San Francisco Theological Seminary), "Spiritual Loss in the German Religious Controversy"
Mary Lindemann (History of Medicine, University of Miami), "The Defects of Flesh: Loss, Imperfection, Ambiguity."
The conference opening reception is Thursday, March 27th, at 5:30 in the Rare Book Room. Sessions run in Von Canon Hall A-C Friday and Saturday, March 28th and 29th. For a full program and registration information go to the FNI website: http://fni.ucr.edu.
The conference is free to Duke faculty and students. For additional information contact Tom Robisheaux, FNI Executive Secretary, trobish@duke.edu. Graduate students should contact James Stutler regarding special participation opportunities. - February 08, 2008 - Friday, February 8 - Triangle Legal History Seminar - National Humanities Center - 4:00-6:00
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/02/05 15:11:25
Kelly Kennington will present on a chapter from her dissertation entitled "Good Reasons to Fear": Slaves' Experiences in Freedom Suits."
Anyone wishing to receive the reading should contact Sandi Payne Greene at payne@email.unc.edu
This chapter is part of her larger dissertation project, which examines slaves' suits for freedom in St. Louis. This chapter looks at slaves' experiences in the freedom suits to ask why, in the face of numerous dangers and obstacles, they chose to trust the law to free them. Suing for freedom could be a life or death decision, but despite the risks involved, slaves had faith in the courts to set them free and they believed that white slaveholders would abide by the court's decisions in these cases. - February 15, 2008 - Friday, February 15 - Research Triangle Seminar in History of the Military, War, and Society - 229 Carr 4-6pm
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/02/05 15:15:57
Jennifer Siegel (Ohio State University) Money, Peace and Power: Loans to Russia and the (Un)Making of the Triple Entent
Refreshments will be served.
Free Parking is available in the lot behind Carr.
A pre-circulated paper is available a week in advance at dirk.bonker@duke.edu
Imperial Russia was the foremost international debtor country in pre-World War I Europe. To finance the modernization of industry, the construction of public works projects, railroad construction, and the development and adventures of the military-industrial complex, Russia's ministers of finance, municipal leaders, and nascent manufacturing class turned, time and time again in the late imperial period, to foreign capital. This talk will examine the history of British and French public and private bank loans to Russia in the late imperial and early Soviet periods, focusing on the ways that non-governmental and sometimes transnational actors were able to influence both British and French foreign policy and Russian foreign and domestic policy. There are three main themes that will be addressed: the role of individual financiers and policy makers; the importance of foreign capital in late imperial Russian policy; and the particular role of British capital and financial investment in the construction and strengthening of the Anglo-Russo-French entente. Most significantly, this talk will look beyond the realm of high politics and state-centered decision making in the formation of foreign policy, offering insights into the forms and functions of diplomatic alliances.
Jennifer Siegel is Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University. She received her B.A. and her Ph.D. from Yale University, the latter in 1998. She specializes in modern European diplomatic and military history, with a focus on the British and Russian Empires. She is the author of Endgame: Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia (I.B. Tauris, 2002), which won the 2003 AAASS Barbara Jelavich Prize. She has published articles on intelligence history, and co-edited Intelligence and Statecraft: The Use and Limits of Intelligence in International Society (Praeger, 2005). Her current research projects include an exploration of British and French private and government bank loans to Russia in the late imperial period up to the Genoa Conference of 1922, tentatively entitled "For Peace and Money." - February 19, 2008 - EndNote Sessions - Perkins Library
Carla Ivey, for grad, 2008/02/07 13:25:08
Jump start your research and writing with an introductory session to EndNote, a citation management tool that is sure to save you time and frustration.
The library is offering sessions at the following times (more to come after Spring Break if these don't fit into your schedule):
Tuesday, Feb 19 from 3-4
Thursday, Feb 28 from 5:30-7
Tuesday, March 4 from 4:30-6
Interested? Register online at
http://library.duke.edu/services/instruction/endnote.do
This introduction to EndNote shows you everything you need to write your first paper. We provide an orientation to the software, including how to enter references, search your library, set preferences, select a style, and set up "Cite While You Write". You'll also work with a word document, pulling in citations from your EndNote library, and then formatting the document in a couple of keystrokes. Training Manual is included and free. - February 25, 2008 - Monday, February 25 History Colloquium 5 - 229 Carr Bldg - Noon
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/02/21 12:00:11
The speaker will be Kathryn Burns, Associate Professor of colonial Latin American history at UNC, who will be introducing her current research project. The title is, "Making Colonial Archives: Cuzco, Peru."
Lunch will be provided. - April 25, 2008 - Friday, April 25 - Triangle Legal History Seminar - National Humanities Center - 4:00-6:00
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/02/06 10:14:33
Professor Thomas Robisheaux will present, "Corpus Delicti: A Seventeenth-Century German University Debates Witchcraft, Poisioning and the Law." - January 22, 2008 - Librarians' Office Hours - beginning Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Carla Ivey, 2008/02/05 15:14:33
Need help finding primary sources for your history paper? Can't figure out where to begin your research for HI195S? Stop by Carr 121 on Tuesdays between 1:30 and 3:30 to get personalized assistance from a reference librarian who specializes in history. No appointment necessary. No question too big or too small. Save time, ask a librarian! - March 17, 2008 - Anne Firor Scott Award - Deadline March 17, 2008
Carla Ivey, 2008/02/27 16:12:23
The Anne Firor Scott Award is given to help students (undergraduates planning to take the History Senior Honors Seminar) engaged in research in women's history to spend time in archives and resource centers where they can use original historical materials. Recent graduates may be considered.
The application consists of three copies of the following, including the completed application form: 1) a proposal of 2-3 pages addressed to the Anne Scott Award Committee and 2) current curriculum vitae or resume.
The proposal should describe the student's overall project or the specific resource materials for study, as well as the reasons undertaking the project; the status of work already in process; a budget for requested funds; and explanation of other funds available to the student.
Applicants will be notified by mail the week of March 31, 2008. Winners will be asked to report on the use of these funds and their work by September 8, 2008.
You may pick up an application from Carla Rusnak at 229 Carr or email carla.rusnak@duke.edu for an application. - January 23, 2008 - January 23, 2008 - Humanities in Medicine Lecture Series - Duke North Room 2002 - 12:00 - 1:00
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/01/16 10:50:20
Margaret Humphreys, Josiah C. Trent Professor in the History of Medicine, will be giving the lecture, "Diabetes Among Union Army Veterans: A Lesson for Our Time," at Duke North Room 2002
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is among the fastest growing chronic disease conditions in the U.S., especially among African-Americans. This study looks at the status of diabetes a century ago, using a dataset of Civil War veterans, and reveals a very different disease pattern than exists today, raising intriguing questions about the evolution of this important disease.
Lunch provided at noon.
Talk begins at 12:15.
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