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The American Bicentennial from the Perspective of Syracuse and Onondaga County, New York
(1975)The observance of the American Bicentennial is an occasion which presented itself during the period of my Senior Independent Project. I decided to explore the organization and activities of this celebration by working on ... -
American Congregational Christian Missionaries as Agents for Reform in Portuguese Angola: 1880-1902
(1972)It is the purpose of this paper to examine closely the founding and early years of the Congregational Christian Church missions of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in the Ble and Bailundu ... -
American Girls on the Home Front : Opportunities and Challenges Faced by the Girl Scouts of America During World War II
(2016)The entrance into World War II heightened the U.S. government's expectation for its citizen's sacrifice, productivity, and patriotism. Girl Scouts U.S.A. responded by collaborating with the U.S. government. By 1942, programs, ... -
An American in London: My Experiences in British Parliament
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1996)The following SIP is divided into three sections; a research paper, an annotated bibliography, and excerpts from my daily journal. While interning in Parliament, I conducted research on the topic of Great Britain's situation ... -
American Passenger Rail Service Since the Advent of the Automobile: Decline and Attempted Renewal
(1981)In. researching the decline and at.tempted revival of American passenger rail service, I have attempted to pay much attention to the technical. aspects of the passenger train problem in addition to the more often studied ... -
The American Peace Commission to the Versailles Peace Conference: 1918-1919
(1965)The question of the role of the Amer1can Peace Commission in the Versailles Conference has always been rather provocative in nature and will not be cleared up by this paper. There will develop a few po1nts, however, which ... -
An Analysis of A.J.P. Taylor's "The Origins of the Second World War"
(1970)This thesis is hardly the accepted view of the 1930's and it is not surprising that it occasioned much controversy and comment when it was published, most of it quite critical and hostile. It is the purpose of this paper ... -
An Analysis of the Judicial Decisions of Alton Brooks Parker, 1896-1904
(1970)In Irving Stone's final passage on Alton B. Parker, he dramatically laments that the chief judge will never have a biography written about him. Finding such a challenge too inviting to ignore, I picked up the gauntlet. ... -
The Anarchists, the Knights of Labor, and the Haymarket Affair : The Impact ofthe Haymarket Affair on the Decline ofthe Knights of Labor in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries
(2019)The Knights of Labor, for all their shortcomings and however brief their period of activity, nonetheless represented an important phase in American labor history. They were one of the first major unions welcome to unskilled ... -
The Ancrene Riwle : Chivalric Attitudes of the Middle Ages
(1983)Stereotypes of Mary and Eve dominated medieval chivalric thought concerning women. The author of the Ancrene Riw1e naturally assimilated these chivalric stereotypes in his life. He was influenced by many aspects of chivalry ... -
"And If I Weep, My Tear Be Thine..." : Social Aspects of the Reconstruction South as Illustrated in the Letters of John Muse Hart, Jr. and Mary Virginia Tucker
(1983)There are many ways in which elements of history, such as the letters of John and Jennie Hart, can be used to preserve events, feelings and attitudes. The most basic manner would be simply to provide the text as a means ... -
Anything to Boost the Morale: Comparison of British and Ameriean Cartoonists, 1936-1945
(2007)This survey will look at political cartoons in the especially rich and volatile years between 1936 and 1945. This period has been split into three different sections, separated because of the widely varying responses to ... -
Apolitical Politics in the Weimar Republic: the Left-wing Artists and the Process of Self-marginalization
(2003)My Senior Individualized Project has involved looking at the lives and works of four Weimar artists: Kathe Kollwitz, Otto Dix, Kurt Tucholsky, and George Grosz. I selected my SIP topic based on two primary considerations. ... -
The Arab Nationalist and Arab Socialist Message of President Gamal Abdel Nasser
(1994)Fundamental to an understanding of the Middle East is an understanding of the regime of President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt from 1952-1970. It is of particular importance to understand the role of Arab nationalism ... -
Archival Theory and Practice: An Internship in the Manuscript Department of the historical Society of Pennsylvania
(1980)I participated in the Manuscript Department's internship program during the fall of 1980. In many ways, m y experience there was that of a typical intern. I, too, observed the Manuscript Department collecting, preserving, ... -
The Ardennes Offensive Kampfgruppe Peiper and the Battle for Bastogne
(1994)The order of the paper will be along the following lines. First there is background information about Germany's position during the Summer and Fall of 1944. This includes events, conditions of troops and terrain, and ...