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Jim Crow - African American Women's History Resources at Rubenstein Library - LibGuides at Duke Univ
https://guides.library.duke.edu/c.php?g=289647&p=1933847
.; personal loans made to family and friends during the Depression; and her investments in government stocks and bonds.
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Business & Labor - Women's History Manuscript Collections at the Rubenstein Library - LibGuides at D
https://guides.library.duke.edu/womenshistory/labor
Additional correspondence relates to World War I, early moving pictures, life during the Roaring Twenties, and the beginning of the (...)
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Book Talk: Selected Letters of William Styron: Feb. 13 - Duke University Libraries Blogs
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2013/01/14/selected-letters-of-william-styron/
Darkness Visible, Styron’s groundbreaking recounting of his ordeal with depression, was not only a literary triumph but became a (...)
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William Henry Harrison and Reform? - Duke University Libraries Blogs
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2015/11/02/william-henry-harrison-and-reform/
“Reform,” in Harrison’s campaign of 1840, was economic reform required as a result of a protracted depression known as the “Panic of (...)
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Bundled Up and Ready for School - The Devil's Tale
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2010/01/27/bundled-up-and-ready-for-school/
But this was 1932, during the depths of the Great Depression. Durham was in the heart of the Jim Crow South.
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2010 July
https://sites.fuqua.duke.edu/fordlibrary/2010/07/
Four math geniuses use arcane mathematical models and powerful computers to create a new financial system, which tames stock market volatility (...)
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Labor Rights and Labor Activism - Duke Human Rights Archive - LibGuides at Duke University
https://guides.library.duke.edu/c.php?g=289375&p=1929686
Among the organizations documented in this collection are the Southern Summer School for Women Workers in Industry (1927-1935), the Institute of (...)
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New Acquisitions Roundup: Farm Security Administration Portfolio - The Devil's Tale
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2016/07/05/new-acquisitions-roundup/
The photographs made for the Farm Security Administration form a profound pictorial record of American life during and following the Great (...)
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Lessons from Spring for a Successful Fall - Duke Learning Innovation & Lifetime Education
https://learninginnovation.duke.edu/blog/2020/06/lessons-from-spring-for-a-successful-fall/
“I was already struggling with severe depression and have felt extremely isolated… I don’t have a normal sleep schedule… I can’t (...)
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Haitian Children in Guantanamo - The Devil's Tale
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2012/06/25/haitian-children-in-guantanamo/
Child detainees, not surprisingly, wrote of their desperation and depression (their own words), and observers of these children offered (...)