Treasured Robert Penn Warren interviews now accessible via Internet
For the first time, anyone with access to the Internet can 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 this project was made possible with the cooperative efforts of the Vanderbilt, Yale and University of Kentucky libraries.
For the first time, anyone with access to the Internet can 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 this project was made possible through the cooperative efforts of the Vanderbilt, Yale and University of Kentucky libraries. Mona Frederick, executive director of Vanderbilt's Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, put this project into motion after learning that many of the tapes were stored at Yale in their original reel-to-reel form. Other tapes were being kept at the University of Kentucky for an oral history project. The digitized audio as well as transcripts for most of the interviews can be found at http://whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu/.
Prepare for rush of attack ads as likely presidential nominees begin battle, say Vanderbilt political scientists
John McCain and Barack Obama, the likely presidential nominees for the GOP and Democrats, will need to run negative ads as they seek to define each other in the general election campaign, says Vanderbilt political scientist John Geer. He and colleague Bruce Oppenheimer are preparing to teach a course on the 2008 elections in the fall.
John McCain and Barack Obama, the likely presidential nominees for the GOP and Democratic Party, respectively, will need to run negative ads as they seek to define each other in the general election campaign, says Vanderbilt political scientist John Geer. He and colleague Bruce Oppenheimer are preparing to co-teach a course on the 2008 elections in the fall. Geer says that McCain needs to emphasize Obama's liberal voting record, while Obama must convince voters that a McCain administration would be similar to a third term for the current president.
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Prepare for rush of attack ads as likely presidential nominees begin battle, say Vanderbilt political scientists
John McCain and Barack Obama, the likely presidential nominees for the GOP and Democrats, will need to run negative ads as they seek to define each other in the general election campaign, says Vanderbilt political scientist John Geer. He and colleague Bruce Oppenheimer are preparing to teach a course on the 2008 elections in the fall.
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