Overview The Ravi D. Goel Collection of Heber S. Thompson highlights the Civil War experiences of the first Yale College student to answer President Lincoln’s call for volunteers after the Battle of Fort Sumter. Heber S. Thompson, a member and author of The First Defenders, enlisted on April 17, 1861. [...]
Overview From its founding in 1625, New York City has always been a place of diverse peoples and opinions. Peter will explore stories of two individuals who exemplify the city’s diversity as revealed through two manuscripts: Anthony Janszoon van Salee (1607-1676), believed to be the first Muslim to settle in [...]
Overview In a recently uncovered letter, Ernest Hemingway suggested to Lillian Ross that she get “a license to carry,” so lethal was her writing. Through an examination of a new trove of letters between them, as well as material from Ross’s archive, independent scholar Sarah Funke Butler will discuss Ross’s relationship [...]
The Sallie Bingham Center and the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection: Yours Respectfully, “A Wild Project…but Grand” Laura Micham will share some of the ways the Lisa Unger Baskin collection has been cataloged and described, used in research and teaching, and exhibited, both digitally and physically, since it debuted in the [...]
Dr. Jason Silverman will reflect on a half century of research, writing, and publishing. He will discuss his experiences, humorous and otherwise, from researching his master’s thesis and doctoral dissertation to his fifteen books. In the process he will talk about how he has found that the definition of researching [...]
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