Duke University

Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke established The Duke Endowment, at which time the institution changed its name to honor his deceased father, Washington Duke. Wikipedia*

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Duke University has hosted 19 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1987 Speech. The year with the most events was 2006 with three events. The year with the highest average number of views per video was 2015 with an average of 1,259 views per video. Most common tags: Commencement, American Perspectives, Terrorism.

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Jon Anda
Visiting Fellow, Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University
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Edward Arnett
Professor, Chemistry, Duke University
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Christopher A. Bail
Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, Duke University
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