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Library helps make Robert Penn Warren interviews accessible via Internet

Jun. 19, 2009—For the first time, anyone with Internet access is able to hear tapes of Robert Penn Warren’s 1964 interviews with prominent Civil Rights activists like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and the Rev. James Lawson. The interviews were conducted for Warren’s book Who Speaks for the Negro?, and the project was made possible...

Divinity Library displays three loaned artworks

Jun. 19, 2009—Vanderbilt’s Fine Arts Gallery loaned the Divinity Library three pieces of Japanese art in December. All three pieces are compositions by the Japanese artist Sadao Watanabe and are from the Herman D. Doochin Collection. “Christ with the Woman at the Well” (1974) is displayed in the south wing of the library’s entrance gallery; in the...