HORNET HIVE
ATHLETICS
SITEMAP
WEBMAIL
History
Browse by
All materials in the Kalamazoo College Digital Archive are subject to Title 17 of the U.S. Code. All rights reserved. Unless otherwise stated, authors retain the copyright for all content posted to the Kalamazoo College Digital Archive.
Collections in this community
-
History Deparment Documents [2]
This collection includes documents from the Kalamazoo College Department of History. -
History Department Local History Seminar Papers, 1947-1991 [108]
This collection contains undergraduate research papers on local history of Kalamazoo and Michigan written between 1947 and 1991. -
History Senior Integrated Projects [674]
This collection includes Senior Integrated Projects (SIP's) completed in the History Department. -
History Syllabi [0]
This collection contains syllabi from the History Department.
Recent Submissions
-
"Made with My Own Fingers When My Heart was Full" : Motherhood and Material Culture in the Lives of Three 19th Century Women
(2023-03-01)Strict gender roles and expectations for women rooted within separate spheres ideology became foundational to American society during the nineteenth century. Separate spheres ideology dictated that women should remain in ... -
"The Enduring Alliance" : How NATO was Created Using History as a Tool for Policymakers
(2023-03-01)History is an essential guide to understanding the present and shaping future events. Historical patterns emerge that can be used in determining the best course of action for policymakers in the present. Historians Richard ... -
A City Divided : Zoning Detroit in the First Half of the 20th Century
(2023-03-01)When looking at the evolution of American cities, one thing is clear: the expansion of cities, both upward and outward, has often led to cramped and dirty environments. Cities minimally regulated construction and land ... -
Language and Loyalty : Lingual Shift from Nahuatl to Spanish in Colonial Tlaxcala
(2023-03-01)In the past 500 years the Mexican state of Tlaxcala has gone from a population that spoke exclusively Nahuatl and other indigenous languages to a population where 98% of the population speaks Spanish as their native language. ... -
Migration and Immigrant's Rights : a Personal Reflection and Historical Analysis
(2023-04-01)Throughout the relatively short history of the United States, the question of how migrants are accepted, integrated, and naturalized has been a major source of contention. Since the early days of migration, White Americans, ... -
The Ideological Functions of Historical Cinema : Spartacus, 300, and American Identity
(2022-11-01)Cinematic storytelling is meant to be consumed as entertainment, making it inaccurate at times. Although not focusing on staying accurate, films show the consequences of not adhering to history correctly. Films show the ... -
The Imagined Celt : Greco-Roman Perceptions of Celtic and Gallic Peoples and Their Historical Impact
(2023-01-01)In contemporary understanding, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales are often referred to as "Celtic" nations because of their shared historical and linguistic heritage. But the further one goes back in history, the less this ... -
The Latvian Center Garezers : The Culmination of Personal Experiences and Building of Community Among the Latvian Diaspora
(2023-01-01)My interest in researching Garezers comes from a deeply-rooted personal attachment to the camp. Both of my parents graduated from GVV, my mother went on to teach Latvian art history and Latvian history at the camp, and my ... -
The Interplay of Politics and Urban Theory in the Creation of the Madrid Metro System
(2023-01-01)In this paper I will outline the additions to the Madrid metro system, starting with the planning of the first line in 1919 and finishing in the early 1990's. Simultaneously, I will analyze how the changes in urban theory ... -
The Servant Problem in the United States
(2023-01-01)Throughout the nineteenth and well into the twentieth centuries, many upper and middle class households in the United States employed servants, but just as often, they complained about “the servant problem,” namely their ... -
The Roles and Perceptions of Women in Medieval Europe, As Reflected in a Medieval Bestiary
(2021-01-07)To the modern reader, medieval bestiaries can appear amusing and often downright funny. They were never written to be scientific truth, even at their time. Most people likely would not have countered the information found ... -
French Universalism and Jewish Particularity : French Jewish Identity from Emancipation to WWI
(2022-03-01)French Jews saw unprecedented prosperity in 19th century France due to the universalist ideas that led to their emancipation. At the time, they were the only Jews in Europe who could actively participate in the educational, ... -
Becoming “Her Woman” : Queerness, Style, and Lesbian Community in 1920s and 1950s America
(2022-03-01)The visual language of fashion can make aspects of one’s personality, previously unseen, highly visible in the material world. Norms of dressing have long been interpreted as the critical markers upholding the gender binary. ... -
“THE JAPANESE INVADE AMERICA”: An Overview of Japanese-American Intercollegiate Baseball, 1905-1936
(2022)This essay seeks to provide an overview of Japanese-American intercollegiate baseball beginning with the first voyage by Waseda University to the US in 1905 and ending with Waseda’s last tour of the states in 1936. The ... -
The Stories That Shape Us All: The Presentation of Slavery at Public History Sites in Virginia
(2022)While Mount Vernon, Monticello, Montpelier, and Colonial Williamsburg have very different legacies, as public history institutions they have employed similar tactics relating to slavery education, and in some instances ... -
On the Origin of Species : An Exploration of Scientific Evolution in Nineteenth-Century Boston
(2022-03-01)The disciplines surrounding the fields of science and religion have long been in contention regarding the theories of evolution, of natural selection, and God's role within these processes. The discourse on these topics ... -
Anishinaabe Empowerment Within the Boarding School Experience
(2022)It is estimated that by 1900 over 20,000 Native American children had attended government run boarding schools and that by 1925 that number had tripled. The boarding schools were a traumatic experience for many children ... -
The English West Indies : Environmental Transformation and Insect Ecology in the Early Modern Caribbean
(2022-01-01)This paper will focus on landscape changes to the English West Indian islands of Barbados, Jamaica, Montserrat, and St. Kitts. The purpose of this paper is not to extrapolate on how mosquitoes affected the politics and ... -
Anonymity and Collectivity : the Civil War Imagery of Winslow Homer and Alexander Gardner
(2021-02-02)The American Civil War brought many names from relative obscurity into the limelight, making heroes (and villains) of soldiers and civilians, North and South. Not only military and political figures emerged, but cultural ... -
Morality and Demons : Indigenous Resistance in Guaman Poma’s Nueva Corónica
(2020-12-01)The Spanish arrival in Peru began a continuous process of cosmological interlocking and redefinition under the colonial structure. Political and economic control necessitated domination of the spirit alongside the body, ...
RSS 1.0