Oral history

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The Adrian Shanker Interview Collection, March 2025, consists of an interview Adrian Shanker conducted with politician Lamar Alexander, b. 1940.

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The Robert Burns Eleazer Papers (1877–1973) include correspondence and writings by Eleazer as well as newspaper clippings, course and program outlines, press releases and pamphlets. There are several autobiographical writings as well as a transcription of Mr. Eleazer being interviewed by historian John Egerton shortly before Mr. Eleazer’s death in 1973. Writings by others include reviews, articles, pamphlets and student papers.

Scope and Content The material in this collection consists of oral history interviews conducted by students in History 295-01, The History of Undergraduate Desegregation at Vanderbilt, taught by Dr. Peter Felten Fall 2004. The collection includes digital audio files of the interviews, interview transcripts, a class syllabus, and annotated bibliographies of select resources assigned to students for research. Interview questions focused on student experiences and perspectives on desegregation during...

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This collection contains five cassette tapes of interviews with Jack Shields, David Baker, Howard Switzer, residents of The Farm, Summertown, Tennessee, for Manhood in the Age of Aquarius (2007). It also contains a CD with transcripts of the interviews.

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This project records the histories and reminiscences of men and women who attended or had connections with Vanderbilt and Peabody during the war years and documents their experiences in the service and on the campus during that time and afterward when some came back to school and attended on the G.I. Bill.

Abstract This collection contains 30 interviews conducted from 2005-2006 documenting the diverse experiences of the merger of Vanderbilt University with George Peabody College for Teachers in 1979. There are interviews with faculty, staff, former students, and former Board Members both at Vanderbilt and Peabody. The collection covers a range of questions including changes brought about at both institutions by the merger and reactions to the announcement of the merger and coverage by the news...

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This collection contains oral history interview tapes and transcripts from the Voices of Vanderbilt project. For a full list of subjects, transcripts, and interviews, contact Special Collections.

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This collection contains the papers of Zapata Olivella, noted Afro-Colombian novelist, anthropologist, folklorist, physician and playwright who was known throughout Latin America as the “Dean of Black Hispanic Writers.” The collection provides a unique window on the history and society of Colombia and on people of African descent in the Americas as a whole.