“For Country Or For Yale?”

Abstract

Charlotte E. J. Juergens is a junior studying History at Yale University. Outside of Yale, Charlotte explores historical and commemorative themes through documentary filmmaking and archival research. She wrote this paper during the fall semester of 2014 for a seminar on the history of Yale and America. Charlotte found inspiration for this paper from the underutilized wealth of archival resources on the subject available in the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale. Charlotte would like to thank Professor Jay Gitlin for his guidance with this assignment and for a fascinating semester of historical investigation.