CDS Names New Director: Award-Winning Historian Wesley C. Hogan
Originally published on the Duke Today website: Wesley C. Hogan, a historian widely honored for her documentary work on the civil rights movement, has been named the new director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. She begins her appointment on July 1. Hogan will be only the third director of CDS, which was [...]
William Chafe to Retire After Forty Years at Duke; Conference and Dinner Will Celebrate His Tenure
William H. Chafe, Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History and Center for Documentary Studies cofounder, will retire this fall after serving forty years on the Duke University faculty. Chafe’s tenure at Duke will be celebrated at a conference October 11 and 12: Unfinished Journey: Writing American History. All venues are on the Duke campus, and all [...]
Readings by William Chafe from His Newest Book, Reception to Follow at CDS, Saturday, October 13
Esteemed historian William Chafe, longtime Duke faculty member and cofounder of the Center for Documentary Studies, is on a national book tour for his latest work, Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). In a starred review, Publisher’s Weekly described the book as ”a superior portrait of how the personal dynamic between the [...]
Historian William Chafe on Bill, Hillary, and the Politics of the Personal: An Interview with CDS Director Tom Rankin
A new book by William Chafe, Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History at Duke University and Center for Documentary Studies cofounder, offers a different take on a perennially timely topic: the Clintons. Publisher’s Weekly‘s starred review of Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) called the book ”a superior portrait of how the [...]
National Search Under Way for a New Director at the Center for Documentary Studies
For the last fourteen years director Tom Rankin has been at the helm of the Center for Documentary Studies, founded at Duke in 1989 as the first institution in the country dedicated solely to the legacy and continuing practice of the documentary tradition. On June 30, 2013, he will step down after three five-year terms. “This [...]
