Lamar Alexander

Celebrated authors and avid readers came together in downtown Nashville Oct. 17–18 for the 2026 Southern Festival of Books presented by Vanderbilt University in collaboration with Humanities Tennessee. Read More

Many writers and performers with Vanderbilt ties will be featured at the 2026 Southern Festival of Books, which returns to the Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, Tennessee State Museum, and Tennessee State Library and Archives Oct. 17–18. Read More

Family, friends and colleagues of Sen. Lamar Alexander gathered at Vanderbilt’s Special Collections and University Archives Oct. 22 to celebrate his distinguished career and the digitization of the Lamar Alexander Papers by the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries. Read More

The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries’ Special Collections and University Archives has completed a long-term project to fully digitize the Lamar Alexander Papers, which document the life and work of a significant figure in Tennessee and U.S. political history. Read More

Lamar at Capitol 1968, photo; Lamar Alexander Papers If you missed our New Acquisitions in Distinctive Collections March webinar you may not know that the pre-senate papers of retired U.S. Senator and Governor Lamar Alexander have been fully opened for research. A recent acquisition to the collection is… Read More