Sergeant’s papers at the Beinecke reveal the texture of life in wartime New York and Paris. This talk will focus on Sergeant and three of her friends whose lives were transformed by the experience of war: Sidney Howard, the flying ace who went on to become a playwright; Henry Martyn Hoyt, a painter and poet; and Thomas Salmon, a psychiatrist and pioneer of treatment for post-traumatic stress. This talk will balance narrative and detective work, history and historiography, showing how the extraordinary range and interdependency of the Yale collections has advanced my work-in-progress.
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