Celia Walker
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Building a University: Buchanan Fellows at the Heard Libraries curate an exhibit that documents Vanderbilt’s beginning
Last fall, five Buchanan Fellows at the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries began a project to research Vanderbilt University’s first decade, from 1875 to 1885, and curate an online exhibit about what they discovered. In the process, the fellows learned how to find supporting materials, interpret historical objects, examine historically significant documents from Special Collections, and place all of them in the context of the university’s—and the nation’s—history. Read MoreSep 9, 2021