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This collection includes Senior Individualized Projects (SIP's) completed in the History Department. Abstracts are generally available to the public, but PDF files are available only to current Kalamazoo College students, faculty, and staff.
All materials in the Kalamazoo College Digital Archive are subject to Title 17 of the U.S. Code. All rights reserved. Unless otherwise stated, authors retain the copyright for all content posted to the Kalamazoo College Digital Archive.
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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 ... -
Royalists and Wretches : Political Polarization and the Paris Commune
(2019)The author traces the political turmoil in the wake of France’s defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. The defeat laid bare the political divide between Paris and the rest of the country. The newly elected assembly ... -
The Francophone Community, Slavery and American Westward Expansion in the Illinois Country : 1778-1804
(2019)American expansion into the Upper Mississippi Valley in the late eighteenth century did not occur in a vacuum, but was effected by this multicultural frontier that had previously existed for a century in the Illinois ... -
The Silence They Carry : the Experiences of Vietnam War Soldiers and the Burden of Silence
(2019)Numerous Vietnam veterans still remain silent about the war they served in, which is today oversimplified and forgotten. The author sets out to shed some light on why so many Vietnam veterans chose to keep silent rather ... -
"We Will All Go Together When We Go" : Civil Defense, Nuclear Consciousness, and American Anxieties in the Early Nuclear Age
(2019)The author sets out to define, identify, and examine the ways in which nuclear consciousness manifested itself in the lives of ordinary Americans in the early days of nuclear weapons, beginning with the attacks on Japan ... -
Better than Cheesecake : An Analysis of Pin-Up Drawings in Esquire Magazine
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2019)The author traces the evolution of the "pin-up girl" from the Victorian era Gibson Girl to the airbrushed drawings of artists like George Petty and Alberto Vargas in the mid-20th Century "girlie magazines like Esquire. -
Mechanisms of Control : The Economic Effects of Israeli Integrationism In Palestine Following The Occupation of 1967
(2018)Free trade is an integral aspect of state building and without it, or the ability to try and work towards it, a nation is subject to be submissive to whatever other entities provide it with monetary relief. Nations cannot ... -
"The Socially Induced Silence : " Feminist Ideology and the Construction of Battered Women's Shelters in the 1970s
(2019)The construction of Battered Women's shelters with specific resources modeled around feminist ideology in the 1970s was critical in establishing wife abuse as a real social issue in American society. As society silenced ... -
From Nerves to Neurosis : America's Cold War Anxieties about Discontent Women Demonstrated through Popular Media, 1950s-1960s
(2019)Women faced immense challenges regarding their portrayal in relation to mental illnesses in the 1950s and 1960s due to a lack of understanding and compassion toward their discontentment. The politics of the post-war and ... -
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, ... -
Skeletons in the Closet of Scientific Ethics : An Analysis ofNazi Medicine, Eugenics, and Bias
(2019)Scientific bias ran rampant throughout the early 1930s and well into the 1940s, virtually unchallenged by anyone. It was finally reeled in by the Nuremberg Trials and the Nuremberg Code, both of which effectively set out ... -
Brutus, Mandela, Robben Island, and Rugby : The Unavoidable Intersection of Sport, Politics and Society in South Africa
(2018)The thesis of this essay is that the intersection of sport, politics, and society is unavoidable as sport often plays a key role in the popular identity of communities and their larger societies. In South Africa, sport ... -
The Transformation of America's Pools into a Civil Rights Battleground
(2018)Throughout American history, segregation was present in many different facets of American life, whether in political offices, workplaces, or public places such as restaurants, movie theatres, and even public transportation. ... -
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 ... -
"He Had Right to Chastise Her" : How American Family Ideals Reinforced Domestic Violence and Impacted the Legal System, 1824 to 1900
(2018)The author examined records from divorce cases tried in Kalamazoo County from 1824 to 1900 found in the Zhang Legacy Collections Center at Western Michigan University. These court cases represent more than just individual ... -
The Accidental Overture : American Foreign Aid and the Origins of the Hmong-American Alliance 1950 - 1960
(2018)When CIA agent Bill Lair and Hmong leader Vang Pao met in 1961 and formally agreed to an alliance, the US had been priming the Laotian Hmong community to accept. To explain both the impact of these aid programs and the ... -
The Case of Suyama Takeshi : An Exploration of the Experience of a Japanese POW in the Soviet Union
(1994)While studying abroad in Japan, the author met Suyami and was given a copy of his self-published memoir. The author has translated the memoir into English and used it along with other research to construct a hypothetical ... -
Or Burn : Anti-Abortion Terrorism in Kalamazoo
(2013)In the case of the arson of Planned Parenthood South Central Michigan on December 1, 1986, the responses to a politically-charged arson that did over a million dollars in damage were minimal. The arson gained little to no ... -
"Controversy and Strife" : The Development of West German Historiography from 1946-1986
(2017)The first section of this work will outline how the German historical profession rebuilt itself in the years just following the war. It will introduce Gerhard Ritter and give a brief synopsis of his main ideas and outlook, ... -
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 ...
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