John Hope Franklin Research Center

03/22/2023

Join us for Black Lives in Archives Day 2023! This one-day exhibit is an opportunity to view, touch, and feel historic printed works by Black authors from the collections of the Rubenstein Library. Monday, April 3, 11am-2pm, Gothic Reading Room, Rubenstein Library 2nd Floor

02/27/2023

Join us for this upcoming event “Behind the Veil at 30: Reflections on Chronicling African American Life in the Jim Crow South.” This two-day conference convened over Zoom on March 6 and March 7 will gather the interviewers and project staff of the Behind the Veil project, conducted in the 1990s, to discuss their experiences capturing the stories of African Americans who lived in the US South during the Jim Crow Era.

Registration information:
March 6 – 12:00-3:00pm (ET) – https://duke.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7OX6-OrASZiXD3XwvwxmIg

March 7 – 2:00-3:30pm (ET) - https://duke.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5b3aNCBZTKaTciB_tqT-uA

03/07/2022

Join the Rubenstein Library as we open our collections for “I Got a Story to Tell: Black Lives in Print.”

Visitors will be able to browse special selections from our collections, chat with Rubenstein Library staff, and explore Black primary source materials. From rare first editions by Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass to published works exploring Black life in Durham to publications by Black students at Duke, the event will give attendees a hands-on experience with the richness of Black print culture!

This event is open to the public. Please register for a free timed-entry pass for attendance, but visitors are welcome to stay for the duration of the event. Space is limited so reserve yours today.

Date: Monday, April 4, 2022
Time: 11am-2pm
Location: Gothic Reading Room, Rubenstein Library, West Campus
Contact: John Gartrell ([email protected])

Reserve your entry pass: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/i-got-a-story-to-tell-black-voices-in-print-tickets-267083793817?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

01/16/2019

Just a reminder that our travel grant program is still accepting applications. Deadline is January 31. Click here for more information -

Thanks to generous funding from GlaxoSmithKline, the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture offers annual travel grants of up to $1,500.Who is eligible?Faculty, graduate or undergraduate students and independent scholars with a research project requir...

12/27/2018

The Franklin Research Center is accepting travel grant applications to research Rubenstein Library collections. Successful applications will be awarded up to $1,500. Applicants must live outside of 100 miles of Durham, NC and must have a research topic related to African and/or African American history and culture. Awards are open to anyone, regardless of institutional affiliation or discipline. Researchers from non-academic and underrepresented backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply. Please click here for more information -

Thanks to generous funding from GlaxoSmithKline, the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture offers annual travel grants of up to $1,500.Who is eligible?Faculty, graduate or undergraduate students and independent scholars with a research project requir...

01/10/2018

Calling all researchers! Franklin Research Center Travel Grant applications are now being accepted. Awards up to $1,500, applications are due Jan. 31. https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/franklin/grants

02/01/2017

Our latest digital collection now online - American Slavery Documents - https://repository.duke.edu/dc/americanslaverydocs

The American Slavery Documents Collection contains an assortment of legal and personal documents related to slavery in the United States. Nearly...

10/22/2016

Call for applications for our 2017-18 Travel Grants to research the collections of the Franklin Research Center and Rubenstein Library. More details - http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/franklin/grants

Thanks to generous funding from GlaxoSmithKline, the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture offers annual travel grants of up to $1,000. Who is eligible? Faculty, graduate or undergraduate students and independent scholars with a research project requ...

04/13/2016

The Franklin Research Center is hiring a project archivist please see link for details -http://library.duke.edu/about/job/jhfrcprojectarchivist

The Project Archivist is responsible for all aspects of the arrangement and description of two groundbreaking collections recently acquired by the John Hope Franklin Research Center: the Robert A. Hill Collection on Marcus Garvey and the UNIA Papers Project Records, and the archives of the Joint Cen…

02/29/2016

Black History in the Rubenstein Library - African Americans in Film Collection, Foxy Brown, http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/africanamericansfilm/.

02/28/2016

Black History in the Rubenstein Library - African Americans in Film Collection, Coffy, http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/africanamericansfilm/.

02/27/2016

Black History in the Rubenstein Library - Chronological History of Colored Troops in Massachusetts, 1930 http://search.library.duke.edu/search?id=DUKE004265364