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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.
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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 ... -
Gallipoli and the Press : How the British Leadership was Considering Press Coverage in the Leadup to the Gallipolli Campaign
(2020-01-01)This paper will examine how the decision making behind the undertaking of the Gallipoli campaign was affected by political concerns. In the United Kingdom, the government was elected, and going into the war the Liberal ... -
Black Jews : The Awakening of a Historical Journey from the Continent of Africa to the Americas
(2016-09-01)Over the years in Africa and the United States, through a variety of religious encounters, some black African societies adopted, or possibly rediscovered, an Israelite religious identity and heritage. This project grows ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
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