Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture

**Mission** The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture acquires, preserves, and provides access to published and unpublished materials that reflect the public and private lives of women throughout history. Our center, housed at the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University, makes these materials available to a growing number of researchers from around the world. **History** In 1988, author and feminist activist [Sallie Bingham](https://salliebingham.com) endowed a women's studies archivist position in the Special Collections Library, now known as the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, to coordinate acquisition, cataloguing, reference and outreach activities related to materials documenting women and gender. The Center was permanently endowed in 1993 and was named the "Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture" in 1999 in honor of Bingham.