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Late Antique Coptic Textiles, Secular and Sacred: Textiles from Karanis, Egypt at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Descriptions of Clothing in Coptic Monastic Texts
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1998)This Senior Individualized Project consists of two parts: a museum internship completed at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology in Ann Arbor, Michigan during the summer of 1998,.and a research project begun at the University ... -
Latin Christendom and the East: Religion and Myth In the West's Interpretation of the Far East after the Mongol Invasions
(2018)The Western world, particularly western Europe has always viewed the Far Eastern regions of Asia through a socially constructed lens that Edward Said coined Orientalism. Yet, this scholarly attribute to the West's view of ... -
Laying the Cornerstone of War : Colonial Fraternity and the American Revolution
(2017)The voluntary organizations and social groups of the Revolutionary War became ingrained in American society, and increased in popularity after the war. These bodies became an essential marker of class and social distinction ... -
Leftist Groups of the Second Republic during the Spanish Civil War : A War Against Franco and One Another
(2018)On March 28th, 1939 General Francisco Franco and his Nationalist army successfully occupied Madrid, Spain after laying siege to it for almost two years. Just three days later on April 1st, the three year war of attrition ... -
Les Musées Coloniaux dans l’Imagination Française : Un Examen Critique de la Représentation des Africains sub-sahariens à l’Exposition Internationale Coloniale de 1931
(2020-04-01)French colonialism during the interwar period is easily an under-studied terrain both with respect to studied colonial images and the historical underpinnings of the period. Scholars of this period consider French colonial ... -
Letters from Almost Nowhere: The Effect of the Intended and the Unintended Reader upon the Epistolary Dialogue of American Soldiers during World War I
(2001)The letters exchanged between home and the front provide invaluable opportunities to study conceptions of privacy and individuality in relation to the very communal nature of war. The correspondence of Clarence Mueller ... -
The Libellus of Jordan of Saxony: History and Hagiography
(2010)It will be the argument of this study that the activity described in the Libellus constituted a Revolution of its own fashion. It seems clear to me that the early Dominicans were defined by a number of principles: they ... -
Liberia: A Study of the Colonial Period 1817-1845
(1964)The underlying assumption of this paper is that the first-hand writings of the colonists and the later academic monographs of the anthropologists and ethnographers are in some way complementary; that both are necessary ... -
The Life of Anthony Cooley
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The Life of Dr. Edwin Van Deusen (1828-1910)
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The Life of Jacob Kindleberger (1875-1947)
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The Lives of Johnnie Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet: A Social History of Hats in Early to Mid-Twentieth Century America
(2015)Taking her title from a 1954 Disney cartoon short featuring two characters that epitomize the iconic nature of hats in mid-19th century America, the author traces the social and economic importance of the hat from the 1920s ... -
Living History Museums: Their Origins, Their Progress, and the Road Ahead
(1991)This paper discusses the origins, characteristics, and developments of living history museums. In order to develop these ideas, it has been divided into four main sections which examine living history museums in a ... -
Local History Project Papers (1976-1981)
(2009-09-01)This is the archival finding aid for the collection of Local History Project Papers (1976-1981) held by the Kalamazoo College Archives. The finding aid was exported from the Archives database in September 2009. -
"London's Greatest Store" : Selfridge's and the Evolution of British Retail
(2016)Born and raised in the United States, Harry Gordon Selfridge was a revolutionary entrepreneur who changed the way shopping was done in Great Britain during the twentieth century, a time when British retail was not necessarily ...