University
Vanderbilt University
Private research university born of a railroad fortune, its leafy campus also a certified arboretum.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Vanderbilt University in Nashville turns on a single carved word above the door of Memorial Hall, and the price of changing it. It traces a nineteen thirty-three donation from the United Daughters of the Confederacy through student protests, a lawsuit, and a Tennessee court ruling on who really owns a name once money has bought it. Best heard standing at the dormitory entrance, looking up at the stone above the doorway.
This audio guide was created using AI.