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This collection includes Senior Integrated Projects (SIP's, formerly known as Senior Individualized Projects) 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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The Roles and Perceptions of Women in Medieval Europe, As Reflected in a Medieval Bestiary
(2021-01-07)To the modern reader, medieval bestiaries can appear amusing and often downright funny. They were never written to be scientific truth, even at their time. Most people likely would not have countered the information found ... -
French Universalism and Jewish Particularity : French Jewish Identity from Emancipation to WWI
(2022-03-01)French Jews saw unprecedented prosperity in 19th century France due to the universalist ideas that led to their emancipation. At the time, they were the only Jews in Europe who could actively participate in the educational, ... -
Becoming “Her Woman” : Queerness, Style, and Lesbian Community in 1920s and 1950s America
(2022-03-01)The visual language of fashion can make aspects of one’s personality, previously unseen, highly visible in the material world. Norms of dressing have long been interpreted as the critical markers upholding the gender binary. ... -
“THE JAPANESE INVADE AMERICA”: An Overview of Japanese-American Intercollegiate Baseball, 1905-1936
(2022)This essay seeks to provide an overview of Japanese-American intercollegiate baseball beginning with the first voyage by Waseda University to the US in 1905 and ending with Waseda’s last tour of the states in 1936. The ... -
The Stories That Shape Us All: The Presentation of Slavery at Public History Sites in Virginia
(2022)While Mount Vernon, Monticello, Montpelier, and Colonial Williamsburg have very different legacies, as public history institutions they have employed similar tactics relating to slavery education, and in some instances ... -
On the Origin of Species : An Exploration of Scientific Evolution in Nineteenth-Century Boston
(2022-03-01)The disciplines surrounding the fields of science and religion have long been in contention regarding the theories of evolution, of natural selection, and God's role within these processes. The discourse on these topics ... -
Anishinaabe Empowerment Within the Boarding School Experience
(2022)It is estimated that by 1900 over 20,000 Native American children had attended government run boarding schools and that by 1925 that number had tripled. The boarding schools were a traumatic experience for many children ... -
The English West Indies : Environmental Transformation and Insect Ecology in the Early Modern Caribbean
(2022-01-01)This paper will focus on landscape changes to the English West Indian islands of Barbados, Jamaica, Montserrat, and St. Kitts. The purpose of this paper is not to extrapolate on how mosquitoes affected the politics and ... -
Anonymity and Collectivity : the Civil War Imagery of Winslow Homer and Alexander Gardner
(2021-02-02)The American Civil War brought many names from relative obscurity into the limelight, making heroes (and villains) of soldiers and civilians, North and South. Not only military and political figures emerged, but cultural ... -
Morality and Demons : Indigenous Resistance in Guaman Poma’s Nueva Corónica
(2020-12-01)The Spanish arrival in Peru began a continuous process of cosmological interlocking and redefinition under the colonial structure. Political and economic control necessitated domination of the spirit alongside the body, ... -
Denmark, Displacement, and the Dark Continent : A Legal Examination of Refugee Migration in Denmark
(2020-06-01)The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between Denmark's and Africa. Specifically spanning from the historical background involving its role in the transatlantic slave trade through the post trade era ... -
From Servicemen to Revolutionaries : Gold Coast Ex-Servicemen & The Post WWII Independence Movement
(2020-06-01)The institution of Colonialism plagued the continent of Africa for the greater part of the 19th through the 20th century. In this project I will be focusing on the Gold Coast and their independence movement. But, more ... -
Bobs, Boys, Brains, and the Bomb : Postwar Teenage Girls Speak Through Seventeen
(2020-06-01)Using Seventeen magazine as a case study, the goal of this project is not dissimilar to that of Helen Valentine's in "Seventeen Says Hello": to gain a greater understanding of postwar American teenage girls and their ... -
Civil War in '34 : Lessons of the Minneapolis Teamster Union Strikes
(2020-06-01)For labor in America, and in the world as a whole, 1934 was a climactic year. Adolf Hitler had just taken power as chancellor in Germany the year before; the Empire of Japan was solidifying its control over Manchuria and ... -
"A Mere Matter of Marching” : A Look at The War of 1812 in the Old Northwest
(2020-03-01)When one thinks of the War of 1812 they generally think of the burning of the Canadian Parliament and White House or the Star-Spangled Banner, but rarely does one think of the frontier. The frontier in the War of 1812 was ... -
Bande Dessinée et Identité Nationale Pendant la Guerre Froide aux États-Unis et en France
(2020-03-01)L'après-guerre est généralement considérée par les Américains comme une guerre froide entre l'URSS et les États-Unis. Cependant, ce point de vue est insuffisant, car il ne tient pas compte du fait que la période a également ... -
Deformities and Monsters : Complicating Images of the Other in Early Modern Europe
(2020-02-01)Monsters have always lurked in the recesses of humankind's imagination, populating the darkness of caves and the corners of maps. They embody the unknown and the unexplainable while simultaneously reflecting these anxieties ... -
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 ... -
Shortcomings of German Holocaust Memorialization and "The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe"
(2019-09-01)This paper will examine one memorial, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, in Berlin, and assess whether or not the memorial does an adequate job of portraying a clear message to the observer. This will be done ... -
The Many-Faced Goddess : An Examination of the Female Divine from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
(2020-01-01)This paper will explore the transitional period between Paganism and Christianity, through the lens of divine female worship, along with the role of women from Antiquity into the Middle Ages. First, it will necessarily ...
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