Award-Winning Historian Named Director of Center for Documentary Studies at Duke

Wesley C. Hogan, a historian widely honored for her documentary work on the civil rights movement, has been named the new director of the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University.

NPR Weekend Edition to Feature Center for Documentary Studies

NPR's Weekend Edition will feature a one-hour special on July 4th of stories from Groundwork, a radio and multimedia project of the Center for Documentary Studies. The show will air on more than a hundred public radio stations nationwide, including WNYC New York, WBEZ Chicago, KUOW Seattle, Minnesota Public Radio, KALW San Francisco, among others.

Duke Professor Honored with NCAE's Excellence in Equity Award

Author and historian Tim Tyson received the N.C. Association of Educators' 2011 Excellence in Equity Award for his long-term dedication, commitment and energy toward the goal of making North Carolina a more equitable community. Tyson is a senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, with secondary appointments in the Duke Divinity School and the Department of History.

Full Frame Founder returns as Featured Filmmaker

Nancy Buirski founded Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in 1998 when she attended Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies. After running the festival for 10 years as executive director, she returns this year as a featured filmmaker. Buirski's documentary, "The Loving Story," centers on the case of the Loving family, the interracial couple at the center of the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court ruling - Loving vs. Virginia - that overturned anti-miscegenation laws in America.

Read more: A 'Loving' debut at Full Frame