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Grace Mott Johnson was a white American artist and sculptor in the early 20th century. This collection contains letters to Johnson from her family, including her son Alfred Dasburg, and others in the artist community. Acquired as part of the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection at Duke University.

The Graduate and Professional Student Council aims to represent the social and academic interests of graduate students to the Duke University community. The Council was previously known as the Graduate Student Association. Records contain correspondence, minutes, constitutions, notes, membership lists, questionnaires, financial records, newsletters, and guidebooks. Major subjects include Graduate and Professional Student Council, Duke University student life, the Graduate School at Duke University, student organizations, Terry Sanford, student participation in administration, student housing, and tuition costs. Materials range in date from 1968 to 2017 (bulk 1968-1976 and 2013-2017).

The Duke Graduate Liberal Studies program was founded in 1984, under director Bonnie E. Erickson. The program grants a Master of Arts in Liberal studies (MALS) and is sometimes referred to as the MALS program. The materials include programs, curriculum development, faculty folders, photographs, slides, and correspondence.

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Duke University was formally established in 1926, although some graduate instruction had been offered previously at Trinity College and Duke University. In 1968 the name was shortened to the Graduate School. Collection includes student records, admission applications, correspondence, dissertation abstracts, brochures, memoranda, newsletters, minutes, financial records, grant records, statistics, and other material generated by the Graduate School. Some individuals featured within the collection include William Glasson, Paul Gross, John McKinney, and Richard Predmore.

Smith argues that the feeling of shame is encouraged by the wearing of clothes and not vice versa.

Arthur Barden Graham was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, of New Bern, N.C. The collection consists of correspondence, reports, speeches, notes, drafts of bills, printed material, and clippings, mostly relating to Barden's work on various House committees, including Education, Labor, Library, and Rivers and Harbors. Major topics include the draft, military installations including Seymour Johnson Air Force Base and Camp Lejeune Marine Base, veterans' affairs, and local affairs and projects of Barden's largely rural district, such as lumbering, tobacco processing, and furniture manufacturing.

Collection contains correspondence, account books, records, sermons, and other papers (chiefly, 1800-1880) of the Graham family of Virginia. Includes letters of the Rev. William Graham, Presbyterian minister and one of the founders of Liberty Hall Academy (later Washington and Lee University); material relating to the patent on Dr. William A. Graham's fire extinguisher; records (1774-1803) of tuition charges and books bought by Washington College students; and correspondence between Edward Graham and Edmund Ruffin discussing scientific experiments.

Papers include ALS from Dick-Read to Bayard Carter, a printed Christmas card, unsigned, and a typescript of an excerpt from a letter by Mrs. Dick-Read.