Celebrating the Bull City

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Explore Durham's history and culture with these resources:

[caption id="attachment_442" align="alignright" width="300" class=" "] photo from MILB.com[/caption] 27 Views of Durham : the Bull City in prose & poetry Durham County : a history of Durham County, North Carolina Durham Technical Community College : celebrating 50 years, 1961-2011 A Palette, Not a Portrait : stories from the life of Nathan Garrett Upbuilding Black Durham : gender, class, and Black community development in the Jim Crow South Durham Tales : the Morris Street maple, the plastic cow, the Durham Day that was & more Durham, a Self-Portrait [DVD] Our Separate Ways : women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina Favored by Fortune : George W. Watts & the Hills of Durham Durham's Hayti Mary : an autobiography

Use the online catalog to find call numbers and more information about these materials.

For more information:

Read a list of 300 things that make Durham Great from the Durham Convention & Visitor's Bureau. Visit Open Durham a highly interlinked archive/inventory of information about people, places, and history in Durham, NC with excellent photos. [caption id="attachment_443" align="alignleft" width="243" class=" "] photo from flickr[/caption] Check out the Museum of Durham History and visit the Durham History Hub in downtown Durham. Learn about Durham's "Black Wall Street" from LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Education