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Special Collection Library acquires, preserves and makes available to a large population of researchers published and unpublished materials that reflect the public and private lives of women, past and present.

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Mary Lily Research Grants

The Bingham Center is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2008 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. A list of past recipients and more information about this program can be found here.

Join the Bingham Center Email List

Keep up to date with news and events from the Bingham Center by subscribing to our new email list. You can either visit the list's home page or send an email to sympa@duke.edu with SUBSCRIBE BINGHAMCENTER in either the subject or body of the message. 

20th Anniversary Celebration!

Plans are taking shape for a celebration of our 20th anniversary, and we hope you can join us for the fun. The date has been set for Thursday, October 23, and more details will be posted on the event website in late summer. Featured speakers will include Sallie Bingham, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Paula Burger, and Jeanette Stokes. 

Explore Past Symposia

Selected programs from the 2003 symposium "Abortion: Research, Ethics, & Activism" and the 2005 symposium "Sisterhood, Riot Grrrl, and the Next Wave: Feminist Generations, Generating Feminisms" are now available through our website and as downloads from iTunesU. Highlights from exhibits created for 2007's "Neither Model Nor Muse: Women and Artistic Expression" are featured in an online gallery. Photos from this symposium are also online via Flickr.

 
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