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Gallipoli and the Press : How the British Leadership was Considering Press Coverage in the Leadup to the Gallipolli Campaign
(2020-01-01)This paper will examine how the decision making behind the undertaking of the Gallipoli campaign was affected by political concerns. In the United Kingdom, the government was elected, and going into the war the Liberal ... -
Gaman : The Trials and Tribulations of the Japanese-American Internment
(2014)Pearl Harbor has been marked as the day of infamy ever since President Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech following Japan's attack. However, the day not only marked the beginning of the United States' involvement in the Second ... -
Gbendembu: An Evaluation of British Indirect Rule: 1896 - 1930
(1968)In the course of this paper I intend to describe and evaluate the effects and effectiveness of the coming of British indirect rule to a village in the northern portion of Sierra Leone. In the first portion I will establish ... -
General George S. Patton: The Man and the Legend
(1973)In retrospect, George S. Patton is remembered as the most dynamic and inspirational commander of the Allied forces in World War II. Despite his 3rd Army's heroic exploits, which were the most impressive in modern warfare, ... -
The General Motors Sit-Down Strike of 1937: A Study of Militant Unionism
(1966)Over 700 men marched out of the General Motors plants in the victorious armies. John L. Lewis called the strike another milestone on labor's march. The strike was more than this, however. It ushered in a new era, that ... -
Generation Conflict and the West German Student Movement of the 1960s
(1991)The thesis of generation conflict offers the best explanation for the outbreak of a student protest movement in the late 1960s. To be sure, it belongs in a hierarchy of causes, but in a very high position. Students of the ... -
The German Empire's Jewish Subjects
(2017)The goal of this paper is to look not just at the status Jews had during this period, but at what measures Jews took to both integrate into the majority German community— to adapt into their community a sense of "German-ness"—and ... -
The Germanic Successor States
(2007)Historians continue to debate the reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire. Most traditional thought on the subject states that combined with other underlying causes, the massive invasions of barbarian peoples in the ... -
Gilles de Rais: Medieval Evil
(2010)How is it that one of the most notorious serial killers of all time becomes so unknown? His comrade, Joan of Arc, is quite well known throughout the world, and from a historical point of view, it is difficult to mention ... -
Gnarled Branches : A Family History
(1979)A general curiosity about what types of people my American ancestors were has lead me to the field of family history. Something of the lives of the Turners who have come before me has been passed on to me and I am interested ... -
Gold Rush San Francisco: Creation and Transformation of a City
(2009)I have always been interested in the history of the West, being from there myself, and it was with this in mind that I started researching topics for my SIP. After reading a particularly wonderful book by Julie Roy ... -
"Good Enough for the Red Man": A Study of the Indian Schools and Indian Education, 1900-1940
(2012)The author traces the changes in the Indian education system in America from 1900 to 1940. The system under men like Carson Ryan Jr., Willard Beatty, and John Collier would have been unrecognizable to the early pioneers ... -
The Gourmet Revolution: Food Culture in America, 1941-1964
(2008)By examining contemporary culinary publications and other food-related sources such as cookbooks, newspaper articles, magazines and other ephemera I aim to show that the gourmet movement of the post World War II period ... -
The Government and the Church: A Faith Based Advocacy for Africa
(1996)Through this Senior Individualized Project, I worked with the Washington Office on Africa (WOA) and the Africa Policy Information Center (APIC). Besides WOA, there exist many groups involved in pro-Africa policy advocacy. ... -
Government Legal Services and Politics: A History of the Legal Services Corporation
(1981)This paper examines and attempts to explain the political vulnerability of government legal services over the years. -
The Grand Rapids Furniture Strike of 1911
(1981)This is the story of the plight of some workingmen in the city of Grand Rapids in the early years of the twentieth century. It is an account of an economic conflict in one of the city's largest industrial bases, the ... -
The Great Cause of Scotland 1290-1292
(1988)"The Great Cause of Scotland" is not an occurrence that has lent itself to the imagination like the Scottish Wars of Independence, the Union of the Crowns or the plight of Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots. Perhaps this lack ... -
The Great Depression and the Putnam County Farmer
(1981)In February 1981, Putnam County Indiana applied to the Indiana University Communities project which is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities for a resident oral historian to come to Greencastle, the county ... -
Greek Martial Laws and Practices: An Analysis and Historical Perspective
(1989)I became fascinated with this topic when I was studying Platonic writings. Plato argued that tradition can only be maintained when its practitioners are oblivious to its traditionality. That is, people continue to act ...