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Source: Duke Today

3-7-16

Duke Flags Lowered: Longtime Duke Historian Robert Durden Dies at Age 90

“His scholarship helped illuminate the history of Duke University from its founding to the present, while his books on the American South informed a generation of American historians."

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Duke Flags Lowered: Longtime Duke Historian Robert Durden Dies at Age 90