Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture

MISSION The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture acquires and preserves published and unpublished materials that reflect the public and private lives of women throughout history. Our center, housed at the Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library at Duke University, makes these materials available to a large number of researchers from around the world. HISTORY In 1988, author and feminist activist Sallie Bingham endowed a women's studies archivist position in the Special Collections Library, now known as the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, to coordinate the acquisition, cataloguing, reference and outreach activities related to women and gender. The Center was permanently endowed in 1993 and was named the "Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture" in 1999 in honor of Bingham.