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Duke's father, Washington, had owned a tobacco company that his sons James and Benjamin (1855–1929) took over in the 1880s. In 1885, James Buchanan Duke acquired a license to use the first automated cigarette making machine (invented by James Albert Bonsack), and by 1890, Duke supplied 40 percent of the American cigarette market (then known as pre-rolled tobacco).
James B. Duke endowed the foundation on December 11, 1924, with $40 million. In the Indenture of Trust, Duke specified that he wanted the endowment to support Duke University, Davidson College, Furman University, Johnson C. Smith University; non-profit hospitals and children's homes in the two Carolinas; and rural United Methodist churches in North Carolina, retired pastors, and their ...
The Franklin Center is named after Dr. John Hope Franklin, the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History and former professor of Legal History at Duke.An intellectual leader and lifelong civil rights activist, his work has inspired the Center's dedication to creative sharing of ideas and methodologies.
Prior to moving to Duke, the CHCI was based at Harvard University. Srinivas Aravamudan was the director of the FHI before he took the position as Dean of Humanities at Duke University in 2009. Ian Baucom was the director of the FHI before he took the position of Buckner W. Clay Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia in 2014.
Linda M. Burton is the James B. Duke Professor of Sociology and Director of the Sociology Department’s Undergraduate Honors Program at Duke University. She is the former Director of the NIMH -sponsored Research Consortium on Diversity, Family Processes, and Child Adolescent Mental Health, the Consortium’s Multisite Postdoctoral Training ...
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Duke lacrosse is doing great again under head John Danowski, who has been coaching the team since 2006. "Seven members of the 2006 team were on the roster in 2010, when Duke and Danowski won a ...
Karla Francesca Holloway (née Clapp; September 29, 1949) is an American academic. [1] She is James B. Duke Professor of English & Professor of Law at Duke University, and holds appointments in the Duke University School of Law as well as the university's Department of English, Department of African & African American Studies, and Program in Women's Studies.