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"Hard" hat used by Terry Sanford at groundbreaking ceremonies for the Institute's building
This ceremonial hard hat was worn by President Terry Sanford at the 1992 groundbreaking ceremony for the Sanford Institute of Public Policy. While the Institute of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs had existed since 1971, the name change recognized President Sanford’s commitment to public service as a former governor and U.S. senator. During his tenure as Duke President from 1969 to 1985, Sanford was widely credited with transforming Duke into a world-class research institution. The Sanford Institute became the Sanford School of Public Policy in 2009. -
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"Hey! Give me that Sign!"
An editorial cartoon printed in the Raleigh-based News and Observer pointing fun at the Allen Building Takeover. -
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"How I get around at 60 and take notes,” undated, Walt Whitman Papers, Volume 123.
This is a draft of an article about aging and mortality that was eventually published in The Critic in January 1881. Even towards the end of his life, Whitman was still an active writer pursuing publication in a variety of forms. -
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"I know well enough that man grows up, becom'g [sic] not a physical being merely," undated, Walt Whitman Papers, Volume 53.
This manuscript fragment comments on the nature of man, showing that Whitman is interested not only in the physical body but in the spirit. -
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"In metaphysical points, here is what I guess about pure and positive truths," undated, Walt Whitman Papers. Volume 67.
Translation:
In Metaphysical points, here is what I guess about pure and positive truths. I guess that after all reasoning and analogy and their most palpable demonstrations of any thing, we have the real satisfaction only when the soul tells and tests by its own arc-chemic power – superior to the learnedest proofs, as one glance of living sight is more than quarto volumes of description and of maps. – There is something in vast erudition melancholy and fruitless as an Arctic sea. – With most men it is a slow dream, dreamed in a moving fog. – So complacent! So much body and muscle; fine legs to walk, - large supple hands – but the eyes are owl’s eyes, and the heart is a mackerel’s heart. – These words are for the great men, the gigantic few that have plunged themselves deep through density and confusion and pushed back the jealous coverings of the earth, and brought out the true and great things, and the sweet things, and being then like oranges, rounder and riper than all the rest, among our literature and science. – These words are for the five or six grand poets, too; and the masters of artists. I waste no ink, nor my throat on the ever-deploying armies of professors, authors, lawyers, teachers, and what not. Of them we expect that they be very learned, and nothing more.
What gentlemen! What then? Do you suppose it is for your geology and your chemistry and your mathematics
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"Inaugural Address of the President of the United States on the Fourth of March, 1861".
In his First Inaugural Address, seen here in a rare Senate printing, President Lincoln decried secession as unconstitutional and undemocratic. By then, seven of an eventual eleven southern states had declared that they were seceding to form the Confederate States of America. Lincoln affirmed to the South that his administration would not interfere with slavery where it was and also held fast to his anti-slavery commitment by firmly opposing any expansion of slavery. He spoke directly to the seceding states: “You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors.” Many abolitionists and enslaved people, however, believed that the war for emancipation had arrived.Tags lincoln-section-3
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