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Exhibits
A Maine resident and lifelong political activist, Olive Pierce's photographs reflect the spirit of community. This retrospective of black and white gelatin silver prints includes images that document life in Cambridge, Massachusetts as well as Maine fishing communities. Images of Iraqi citizens under US economic sanctions in 1999 and photographs of Maine citizens demonstrating for and against the war in 2003, make the connection between the local and global community.
Olive Pierce: Forty Years of Photographs (1963-2003)
Olive Pierce's photographs reflect a spirit of community. This retrospective of black and white gelatin silver prints documents life in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as well as in Maine fishing communities. A lifelong political activist, Pierce's photographs of Iraqis under U.S. ecomonic sanctions in 1999 and Maine citizens demonstrating in 2003 for and against involvement in Iraq make the connection between the local and global communities.
Start: 4 August 2008 | End: 14 December 2008 | Special Collections Gallery
Songs of Glory, Songs of Sorrow: The Civil War in Music
The American Civil War remains the most devastating war in United States history, with deaths numbering about 618,000–more than in all the nation’s other wars combined, from the Revolutionary War through the Iraq War. This exhibit features sheet music and broadside verse expressing the triumphs and tragedies of the war’s battles, grieving mothers, soldier boys, flags, military officers, and even humor. Themes specific to the Civil War yet universal to all armed conflicts remind us of the high cost paid when peaceful solutions and diplomacy fail to win the day.
Start: July 2008 | End: October 2008 | Rare Book Room Hall Cases
Remembering the Ukrainian Famine Genocide
A book exhibit of selected publications on the 1932-33 Ukrainian famine from the collections of the Duke University Libraries will be on display until September 30, 2008, on the second floor of Bostock Library, in the glass display cases next to the International and Area Studies Department offices. The exhibit is timed to coincide with an interdisciplinary academic conference, The Ukrainian Famine-Genocide: Reflections After 75 Years, at University of North Carolina’s FedEx Global Education Center, which took place on Sept. 12, 2008.
Start: September 2008 | End: October 2008 | IAS Gallery
Publications
- Black Voices
- Newsletter of the John Hope Franklin Collection for African and African American Documentation
- Front and Center
- The newsletter of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History
- Women At The Center
- The newsletter of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture
Pivotal Books/Personal Reflections
This exhibit explores the intimate nature of books. Members of the Duke University community shared essays concerning books that have had an important effect on their life or career. Also included in the exhibit are items from RBMSCL that showcase unique and interesting examples of the special relationship of "books" and their readers.
Start: 11 August 2008 | End: 10 October 2008 | Perkins Gallery
Divinity Exhibit
Duke Divinity School Library will feature Lee Gruber Clark's artwork as part of their annual Theological Libraries Month. Her exhibit: "Illuminations: A Book of Hours" will run from September 15 - October 31st. The artist reception and remarks will be held on October 29th at 12:20pm in the Divinity School Library. Clark’s work exhibits an understanding of the spiritual connection and physical link between all aspects of life. She is currently a full-time, working artist with a studio in Raleigh’s artspace; she sells and exhibits her work from Studio 208. Her work coincides with Theological Libraries Month by drawing attention to a historically visual book; i.e., the “Book of Hours.”See more images at her website at http://leegruberclark.com
Start: 15 September 2008 | End: 31 October 2008 | Divinity Library
Tuberculosis: Past, Present Future
Posters have been used from the early 20th century as an effective educational and fundraising tool in the campaign against TB. The idea for Tuberculosis: Past, Present, Future was prompted by Dr. Barbara C. Newborg's gift of ten German post World War I posters which are prominently featured in the exhibit. This exhibit is on display through September 2008 in the Lower Lobby outside of the History of Medicine Reading Room.
Start: July 2008 | End: September 30, 2008 | History of Medicine, Medical Center Library Exhibit Space
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