Seeing Japanese Popular Culture through Anime
Collections Highlight After your first random fifteen minutes of any (non-dubbed) anime you’re bound to be overwhelmed by its otherworldliness. You will encounter a different gravity, an unlikely...
View ArticleThe Factory Front: Science and Technology in WWII
Collections Highlight During the Second World War, the Allies feared that German applications of science and technology were superior to their own and might be a determining factor in the outcome of...
View ArticleChina: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980
Collections Highlight Luo Zhou From England’s first diplomatic mission to China in the late 18th century to the rise of the People’s Republic in the twentieth century, European and American government...
View ArticleImages of the Russian Civil War in Siberia from the Robert L. Eichelberger...
Collections Highlight Eric Zitser Robert L. Eichelberger (1886-1961), a 1909 West Point graduate, served with distinction in the U.S. Army, rising to the rank of lieutenant general before his...
View ArticleCollections Highlight: Celebrating and Preserving the Art of Documentary...
Kirston Johnson Born into Brothels, directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, won the 2004 Full Frame Audience Award and was Best Documentary Feature at the 77th Academy Awards. In the ten years since...
View ArticleCollections Highlight: Ethiopic Manuscripts at Duke
“Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers,who let me finish the writing of the Zemmâre and the Mawâs’etin peace and well-being,for ever and ever. May it be!” (Colophon of ms. Duke Eth. 83) Courtesy...
View ArticleCollections Highlight: John Wesley Blassingame and the African American...
Courtesy of Yale University The John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture at the Special Collections Library recently acquired the papers of John Wesley...
View ArticleDigitizing DukEngineer: Every Issue Since 1940 Now Online
By Gwen Hawkes To help celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Pratt School of Engineering, the Duke University Libraries recently finished digitizing a classic campus publication: DukEngineer....
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