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The Daguerreotype and Mid-Nineteenth Century Americans
(1986)The subject of this paper was basically decided for me by the nature of my internship at Henry Ford Museum. The Assistant Curator of Graphics had three main projects she hoped I would accomplish during the twelve weeks ... -
David Lloyd George and Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1917-1920
(1965)The subject of this paper stems from my interest in Lloyd George and in Russia. My interest in Lloyd George is concerned with his energetic leadership in the political world; with Russia my interest is concerned with ... -
David Safford Walbridge
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De-Stalinization Under Nikita Khrushchev: An Era of Thaw, Not Just a Policy of Reform, 1953-1964
(2013)The author traces how individual Russian leaders shaped communism in Russia and how Joseph Stalin allowed communism to evolve into something enforceable only through oppression. With Stalin's death in 1953, Nikita Khrushchev ... -
The Death of the Monopoly System in British Economic Policy: The Roots of the British and American Patent Systems and the Origin of the Current Confusion between Patents and Monopolies
(1979)The present study is an attempt to clear up some of the misunderstanding and confusion surrounding the historical origin of patents and monopolies and the proper meaning of each term. In the first section of the work the ... -
Debates Around Security and Democracy in West Germany from 1957-1968
(2019)The establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), also known as West Germany, in 1949 brought about a new era in German history. The first government was formed by a coalition of Christian Democrats and Christian ... -
Defining Battery: The Struggle for a Battered Women's Movement in the United States and Great Britain
(1994)This essay will initially examine how the issue of battered women was perceived by society in the United States in the nineteenth-century. I will discuss first how battery was used by activists to represent the ... -
Defining Waistlines and Defining a Nation : American Women's Fashion from 1760-1850
(2016)The clothes we wear are a public declaration of who we are and what we value. Society has regularly constructed fashion as a feminine concern, and women have been held highly accountable for the clothing that they wear and ... -
Deformities and Monsters : Complicating Images of the Other in Early Modern Europe
(2020-02-01)Monsters have always lurked in the recesses of humankind's imagination, populating the darkness of caves and the corners of maps. They embody the unknown and the unexplainable while simultaneously reflecting these anxieties ... -
The Democratic National Convention of 1924
(1968)The original inspiration for this paper, and the source of many references, was Frederick Lewis Allen's Only Yesterday, a work which stands alone in its documentation of American society in the 1920's. Other works ... -
Denmark, Displacement, and the Dark Continent : A Legal Examination of Refugee Migration in Denmark
(2020-06-01)The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between Denmark's and Africa. Specifically spanning from the historical background involving its role in the transatlantic slave trade through the post trade era ... -
The Depression and the People of Kalamazoo
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Detroit and Civil War: The Limits of Patriotism
(1974)This paper is a study of Detroit's reaction to the Civil War. Originally I had planned to write only on the riot of 1863 in Detroit. However, as I read more and more, I realized that that incident could only be understood ... -
The Detroit Riot of March 6, 1863: Happenstance or Planned Rebellion
(1976)Detroit has had its share of violence and civil disturbances in the twentieth century. Few native Detroiters over the age of eighteen have forgotten the fearful days of 1967. Many others can recall the riot of 1943. Some ...