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HISTORY 495S/496S: Honors Thesis Seminar 2024/25

A guide for the year-long senior honors seminar (HISTORY 495S/496S)

Get Additional Benefits for Honors Thesis Writers

  • Get access to Bostock 312, a quiet study room available only to students writing senior theses (ask for the code at the Perkins Service Desk)
  • Have books delivered to the library of your choice; the Bishop's House is the library location on East Campus while Lilly is being renovated
  • Get access to study carrels for 4-hour blocks; check out a key at the Perkins Library Service Desk
  • Get access to yearlong assigned lockers (limited availability on a first-requested, first-accommodated basis). 

Request Books and Articles from other Libraries

If you come across an interesting article or book, and the article or book are not held at Duke, you can enter an Interlibrary Loan request for the material with your Interlibrary Loan Account

Use the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Rubenstein Library holds Duke's Special Collections and Archives. Create a Special Collections Account to request materials for use in the reading room. Once set up, the account allows you to use collections in the reading room at Rubenstein and at the Wilson Special Collections library at UNC. 

Deposit Your Thesis at Duke Libraries

Deposit Your Honors Thesis (And Make it Visible on Social Media)

The Duke University Archives accepts departmentally-approved honors papers (also called senior honors theses) for permanent storage and makes these honors papers available to scholars throughout the world. The University Archives also collects those graduate theses produced by students of the University's professional schools. Finally, the University Archives collects those theses and dissertations submitted to the Graduate School and published via ProQuest/UMI. These papers, theses, and dissertations are preserved in the DukeSpace repository.

The following information refers to undergraduate honors theses.

Find electronic undergraduate honors theses

Since 2007, honors theses are submitted electronically and are not collected in print. Electronic honors theses can be accessed via the DukeSpace repository's Undergraduate Honors Theses collection (Select department).

Find (older) print undergraduate honors theses

Before transitioning to electronic theses, the University Archives catalogued print honors papers (also called senior honors theses) by academic discipline. The links below will show catalog records for honors papers from several disciplines.

Please note that you may view honors papers in the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library's Reading Room, but you may not borrow them. 

Submit

Detailed instructions about submitting your honors thesis to Duke University Libraries can be found on Duke University Libraries' Digital Repositories help documentation webpage.

Contact information

With any questions or problems submitting your thesis to DukeSpace, contact Digital Collections and Curation Services.