History

Ashton Merck: COVID-19 Is A Food Safety Issue

April 28, 2020

Ashton Merck: COVID-19 Is A Food Safety Issue

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John Snow's cholera map

April 8, 2020

From Duke Libraries: John Snow's Map and Other Documents from Early Efforts to Fight Epidemics

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Thomas Robisheaux teaching in a FOCUS class

March 30, 2020

Epidemics in History: Stories of Cataclysm and Astonishing Advances

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https://gradschool.duke.edu/about/news/history-alumni-celebrate-common-wind-launched-their-careers

March 6, 2020

History Alumni Celebrate Julius Scott, the Common Wind that Launched Their Careers

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“If a historian has to seek to practice their craft with integrity and depth, they must ... not fall into the trap of putting one's personal ideological preferences onto the past." -- Ramachandra Guha, historian and biographer

March 3, 2020

Said@Duke: Ramachandra Guha on What Makes a Good Historian

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Duke Chapel at Sunrise

February 19, 2020

What to Look Forward to in Duke’s Next Decade

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A page of Omar ibn Said’s autobiography, written in Arabic in 1831, and a restored, colorized portrait of Omar ibn Said, right, around the 1850s. Page courtesy of LOC; Photo courtesy of Yale University Library

February 13, 2020

The Mystery of Omar Ibn Said

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February 4, 2020

Building Sandcastles with History: Recreating the Vision of Pre-Modern Mapmakers

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The photo of Castel Nuovo in Naples that undergraduate researcher Jules found.

January 31, 2020

This Student's Research into Medieval Italy Is Producing Treasures for the Wired! Lab

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January 7, 2020

A Memoir of Activism in El Salvador in the 1970s Wins Méndez Human Rights Award

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Dutch Slaving Voyages (1751-1795): The height of each bar corresponds to the average number of deaths per 150km2 grid. The color of the bar corresponds to the number of ship locations recorded in each grid.

December 2, 2019

How Do We Remember and Memorialize the Middle Passage?

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The cover for David Rubenstein's book "The American Story."

December 1, 2019

David Rubenstein: Talking American History with Great American Historians

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About 17 gravestones dot the quarter acre of land set aside for the Rigsbee Graveyard on Duke’s West Campus. Photo courtesy of Duke University Archives.

November 18, 2019

A Cemetery on Campus

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A crane removes part of the Berlin Wall. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons

November 7, 2019

(Mis)Reading the Berlin Wall — 30 years later

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Faculty and students discuss their findings about housing disparities in Durham.

November 1, 2019

History Department Exhibit Presents the Stories Behind Housing Inequality in Durham

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The Rolling Stones played at Brooks Field at Wallace Wade Stadium in 2005. Photo courtesy of University Communications.

October 28, 2019

Musicians that Rocked Duke

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