Browsing History by Title
Now showing items 369-388 of 775
-
Idealized Femininity and Female Insanity in Southern Insane Asylums Between 1880 and 1900
(2019)Throughout the end of the nineteenth century, Southerners understood female insanity through idealized femininity. However, the ideas about acceptable femininity had changed in the aftermath of the Civil War. By the 1880s, ... -
The Illegal Importation of Alcohol into Detroit During Statewide and National Prohibition
(2001)The year 2001 marks the three hundredth birthday of Detroit, and as a native of the Detroit area, I wanted to write my SIP on something to do with the city that I grew up so close to. Initially, I was attracted to the ... -
An Illustrated Biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi
(2014)The author uses the Manga format to present a biography of the 16th century samurai general Toyotomi Hideyoshi, including additional biographical information on Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu, as well as a brief history ... -
Image-Makers: Theodore Roosevelt, Buffalo Bill
(1975)The purpose of this paper is to study the contribution of the popular press to the development of heroic images of American public figures at the turn of the century. By 1900, the magazine business expanded very rapidly ... -
Images of German-Americans During World War I
(2012)This study will follow a roughly chronological progression through the years of the First World War, beginning toward the end of the first decade of the Twentieth century, and concluding with the immediate aftermath of ... -
The Impact of the Horse on Western Civilization
(1981)History has been defined in many ways. To most, it is the study of names and dates. To others, it is the study of progress. To others still, possibly less optimistic, it is the study of change. Accepting the last definition ... -
The Impact of the Scottish Independence Referendum of 2014, Considering Historical Precedents and Current Issues
(2014)From 2014 onward, September 18 could forever be known as Scottish Independence Day. On this day the Scottish people will vote on whether to separate from the UK after a three-hundred year union. The Scottish National Party, ... -
The Impact of U.S. Railroad Policies in Manchuria on American-Japanese Diplomatic Relations 1909-1910
(1975)My original inquiry concerned President Taft's role in the making of his administration's Far Eastern policy. Why did Taft, with a special sense of amity and respect for Japan and the Japanese leaders, allow the antagonism ... -
The Importance of the USS Oriskany in US Naval History, and in the Future Ecology of the Florida Coastline
(2018)The USS Oriskany CVA-34 has served with distinction through two wars, became the set of movies, and finally has taken a final and honorable rest at the bottom of the ocean. She was the fundamental link between the Propeller ... -
In Defiance of Breathlessness: Calling up the Requirements of Clear Spirit, Hard Knowledge, Proper Vision and Cool Stillness of Movement as a Means of Reclaiming Boundaries of Land and Heroic Human Transformation in Africa
(1989)I work with the knowledge that the present discontinuities and disruptions in Africa will not last forever, and that the lessons of the newest realities of industry, bureaucracy, and urbanism are being incorporated into ... -
In Little More Than a Decade!
(1964-01-01)The paper studies the feminist movement in Britain during World War I and the decade following the Armistice. -
In Search of an American Tradition : A Study of the Provincetown Players, 1915-1922
(1984)From 1915 to 1922, the Provincetown Players were dedicated to creating a new American theater. They were devoted to promoting original American drama in a free and spontaneous atmosphere. They stressed group dynamics and ... -
An Increasingly Untenable Position: The Kalamazoo Gazette and the Rise of Abolitionism in Southwestern Michigan
(2006)My primary source, the Kalamazoo Gazette began operation in 1833 as the Statesman from White Pigeon Michigan, with Mr. H. Gilbert as the primary editor. The paper was Democratic and promoted the party's agenda and ... -
The Indians, the British, and the Americans in the Northwest Territory: 1775-1812
(1975)This project attempts to discuss the peculiar relationship between the Indians, the British, and the Americans in the Northwest Territory from 1775-1812. It indicates that frontier settlers were not motivated to fight ... -
"Indignation Can Move Mountains": Women in the French Resistance, 1940-1944
(2013)The author discusses the role of women in French society in the years before World War II, traces the rise of the Vichy Regime, noting the ways in which the regime sought to reorganize French society in the wake of defeat, ... -
Industrial Britain 1870-1914: A Study of the Great Depression and Industrial Deceleration
(1984)Preceding any reading of economic history, one must ask the unavoidable question, "Does the past possess useful economics?" This question, however, is only a modern phenomena. Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes ...