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The Calliope : A Play in Three Acts Concerning the Life and Death of George Boulanger
(1977)I have made this play into a fiction. Everything in this play either did occur, or might have logically occurred. In other words, this play is, above all else, a history of the career of one man: General George Boulanger. -
Caroline Bartlett Crane: A Kalamazoo Progressive Reformer
(2003)The progressive era was a time in American history which produced an inordinate amount of change during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The progressive era was filled with many reforms which sought to ... -
The Carriage Industry of Kalamazoo, Michigan
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The Case of Suyama Takeshi : An Exploration of the Experience of a Japanese POW in the Soviet Union
(1994)While studying abroad in Japan, the author met Suyami and was given a copy of his self-published memoir. The author has translated the memoir into English and used it along with other research to construct a hypothetical ... -
The Case of Suyama Takeshi: An Exploration of the Experience of a Japanese POW in the Soviet Union
(1994)The following is an essay in several senses of the word. It takes the form of an experiment and a trial, and is certainly only a first and incomplete attempt at analyzing a complicated series of events and issues. The ... -
A Case Study in Educational Inequality: The Detroit Public School System 1963-1967
(2002)The study of the riots became important because it exposed many of the racial inequalities in northern cities that exist to this day. Several studies after the riot revealed what had been obvious to many; the typical ... -
A Case study of Railroad Regulation: Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic vs. Attorney General of the State of Michigan
(1975)The trial produced over 12,000 pages of testimony in addition to hundreds of pages of exhibits. Consequently, it is beyond the scope of this paper to deal extensively with all the material gathered during this period. It ... -
The Catholic Worker Movement and Its Impact upon America
(1985)Four years ago, I came to know of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement through my father. I was introduced to the movement in December of 1980 at the time of Dorothy Day's death. It is my misfortune to have missed ... -
Caught in a Changing World
(1989)When I began considering possible topics for my SIP, I knew that I wanted to examine a question in the general area of United States-Latin American relations. I eventually narrowed my choice down to the topic that appears ... -
The Causes Behind the Introduction and Defeat of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Judicial Reform Bill
(1973)In order to understand the judicial reform bill introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937, one must examine Roosevelt as an individual and politician and then look at the courts, primarily the Supreme Court, ... -
CDF Freedom Schools : Examining the History of an Effective Teaching Model for African American Students in Urban Communities
(2014)In 2012, the author participated in an internship as a teacher at a summer camp entitled Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC) Freedom School in Chicago, Illinois teaching urban second graders the value of reading. Through ... -
The Celluloid Woman: A Study of Popular Soviet Films and the Portrayal of Soviet Women from WWII to Perestroika
(2010)Throughout its seventy-four year history, cinema held a special place in Soviet society; highly regarded by both ~he population and the regime, it was quickly exploited. Ardent believers in cinema, the Bolsheviks established ... -
Centralism in the History of Chimbote, Peru
(1970)This paper is an attempt to make a limited statement about the historical experience of the city of Chimbote, Peru. The main concern is with the past three decades when Chimbote underwent a transformation from a fishing ... -
Change and Strain within the French Far Right: The Political Careers of the Union de Defense des Commercants et Artisans and the Front national
(1998)This essay will compare two social movements which adhere to the extreme-right tradition in French politics: the Union de Defense des Commercants et Artisans (U.D.C.A.) and the Front national (F.N.). In the first section, ... -
The Change in Attitudes of the People of Kalamazoo toward Germany 1914-1917
(1970)On. June 28, 1914 Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo. This act served as the spark for the hectic diplomatic interchanges known as the July crisis which culminated in the declaration of a European war ... -
Changing Violence
(2003)I first realized that this project was life consuming when I went to downtown Chicago and no longer saw Grant Park, the comer of Michigan Avenue and Balbo, or Lincoln Park in their current forms. Instead, I saw the places ... -
Charles A. Beard's Economic Interpretation of History
(1964)The author surveys the work of historian Charles A. Beard and asserts that his primary achievements are that "He has awakened the need for study of economic motivation and stimulated interest in American economic history. ... -
Charles Houston, Thurgood Marshall and Pauli Murray : Social Science, Gender & the Road to Brown
(2015)Brown v. Board of Education, a memorable and critical turning point in Black America's fight for equal rights and treatment in the United States of America, is a widely explored topic with countless publications examining ... -
The Chicago Tenants' Protective League
(1982)The Chicago housing shortage after World War I was a serious problem in its size and scope. By the Summer of 1921, Chicagoans faced a shortage of 100,000 moderately priced apartments. Although 9.000 apartments were available ...