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The history of Duke University began when Brown's Schoolhouse, a private subscription school in Randolph County, North Carolina (in the present-day town of Trinity), was founded in 1838. [1] The school was renamed to Union Institute Academy in 1841, Normal College in 1851, and to Trinity College in 1859.
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. [10]
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).
The Duke Law & Technology Review has been published since 2001 and is devoted to examining the evolving intersection of law and technology. The Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy was founded by members of the Class of 2006.
Trinity College of Arts and Sciences is the undergraduate liberal arts college of Duke University.Founded in 1838, it is the original school of the university. Currently, Trinity is one of five undergraduate degree programs at Duke, the others being the Edmund T. Pratt School of Engineering, Nicholas School of the Environment, School of Nursing, and Duke Kunshan University.
Duke founded the Newport Restoration Foundation back in 1968 to support the preservation of more than 80 Colonial homes in the city. The mansion has served as a house museum since 2003.
The duke founded The Invictus Games to aid the rehabilitation of injured and sick military personnel and veterans across the globe.
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