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The Devil's Tale - Page 86 of 131 - Dispatches from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/page/86/
In the late 1950s in rural Florida, a group of young, self-taught African-American artists began to paint optimistic and colorful (...)
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Gilded Age Cures for Soldiers Suffering from Opiate Addiction - The Devil's Tale
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2019/02/20/gilded-age-cures-for-soldiers-suffering-from-opiate-addiction/
During the 1870s and 1880s, ex-military surgeons, in particular, exhorted their colleagues in medical journals and scientific studies to (...)
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A Visit to Duke on the Way to the Presidency - The Devil's Tale
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2012/11/06/jfk-visit/
From the Duke University Union Records. Click to enlarge. Local newspaper accounts indicate that the speech, titled “The Challenge to (...)
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A “malicious fabrication” by a “mendacious scribbler for the ‘New York Times’” - The Devil's Tale
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2018/03/12/malicious-fabrication-mendacious-scribbler-new-york-times/
He told his British cousin, that not only was Lincoln a “third rate Western Lawyer” who was a “small caliber” politician but also that Lincoln’s (...)
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Humanizing History, Complicating Memory: A Trip into the Past - The Devil's Tale
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2023/08/28/travel-grant-attica/
On a warm Monday morning in June, I caught an Uber to Union Station in Washington D.C. and boarded a train to Durham, North Carolina.
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The Devil's Tale - Page 54 of 131 - Dispatches from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/page/54/
George Washington Williams, 1889 Williams joined the Union army during the Civil War at age 14, after lying about his age.
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The Devil's Tale - Page 38 of 131 - Dispatches from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/page/38/
Cover of 1953 NC Baptist Student Union Convention program. The general board then began an investigation of the programs and leadership (...)
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The Devil's Tale - Page 74 of 131 - Dispatches from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/page/74/
In 1965, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, professor of Jewish Ethics and Mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, accepted as (...)
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The Devil's Tale - Page 37 of 131 - Dispatches from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/page/37/
She has recently published a new book on this topic, Pioneering African-American Women in the Advertising Business, Biographies of (...)
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The Devil's Tale - Page 91 of 128 - Dispatches from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/page/91/
Compare, for example, the operation expenses of white Durham High and African-American Hillside High ($68,475.27 to $39,346.22, (...)