Scope and content Papers of Michael Uhl include correspondence, 1981-2009; his Ph.D. dissertation, "A Regular Guy: The Antiwar Memoir of a Vietnam Vet," 2002, with early drafts and files relating to his studies; a spiral-bound notebook of selected poems, articles, and other works, as well as loose clippings of recent reviews and a chronology of his publications, 1972-1998; drafts of an unpublished novel, "Alto's Journey"; draft chapters of an unpublished non-fiction work on the German-American experience;...

Scope and content An archive of materials documenting the development of the understanding and treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in the first decade after the end of the Vietnam war, when the symptoms of the syndrome were first becoming evident. Materials shed light on the development of a methodology for addressing a catastrophic psychological syndrome that appeared in the aftermath of what was, up to that point, the longest war in American history. The archive consists of Smith's research...