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Special Collections
Divinity School Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains recent Duke Divinity School theses and dissertations.
Religion in North Carolina
More than 1,900 documents of religious bodies in North Carolina are available through a collaborative project between Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, Wake Forest and over 200 other libraries and archive.
American Methodism
A collection of almost 4,000 interdisciplinary and historical materials related to American Methodism. This collection was created through a partnership between the United Methodist-related seminary libraries, the Internet Archive, the United Methodist Commission on Archives and History, and the Methodist Librarians Fellowship.
Geoffrey Wainwright Papers
This collection contains documents created and collected by Geoffrey Wainwright (1939-2020), a British Methodist minister and theologian who spent nearly three decades at Duke Divinity School as a professor of Christian theology. The collection spans Wainwright’s career from his time as a student at Barnsley Holgate Grammar School to his 2012 retirement from Duke.
Duke Papyrus Archive
Nearly 1400 papyri are available for viewing.
Emma Spaulding Bryant Letters
Contains transcriptions and scans of Emma Spaulding Bryant's letters from 25 July 1873 to 19 August 1873.
Isaac Leroy Shaver Papers, 1893-1982
This electronic finding aid contains digitized: sermons 1930s-1960s, personal files 1890s-1980s, photographs 1920s-1970s, diaries and appointment books 1939-1975.
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