The Papers of Jim Grimsley, author of the widely praised recent novels Winter Birds , Dream Boy , and My Drowning , have been added to the Special Collections Library's holdings. Some parts of the collection are restricted. The Grimsley papers arrived during a period in which the SCL received additions to several other Southern writers' collections, including the those of Fred Chappell, Reynolds Price, Sallie Bingham, and William Styron. Women's Liberation On The Web. Materials in this on-line archival collection document various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus specifically on the origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Items range from theoretical writings to humorous plays to the minutes of a grassroots group.
These items were scanned and transcribed from original documents held in Duke's Special Collections Library. They were selected by a Duke professor and several colleagues at other universities to provide primary materials on-line to support undergraduate classes at Duke University and to benefit teachers and researchers around the world. Materials available at this web site reflect only a small portion of SCL holdings related to this topic. The William R. Reevy Collection of Books on the History of Sexuality was recently added to Duke Libraries. Reevy, a retired professor and clinical psychologist who taught one of the first university classes on human sexuality in the U.S., donated his research library of over 1200 volumes to Duke.