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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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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 ... -
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 ... -
She's a Bad Mama Jama : Black Women in the Media in the 1970s
(2017)The essentialist construction of Black womanhood present in the Rolling Stones’ song Brown Sugar is one example of a representation. Within the context of this paper, a representation is a portrayal of Black women constructed ... -
"We Don't Die any Differently Now Than We Did Back Then" : Victorian Post-Mortem Photography and Gender Performance
(2017)Throughout history humans have had an interest in death, an interest in the how and why, pursuing answers through religion and through science. The English relationship with Death changed a lot during the Victorian Period. ... -
'Love is the Message" : Sexuality and Social Change in the Disco Era
(2018)As much as disco intrigued and excited its straight listeners, significant tensions existed between straight and queer participants, as well as between white and nonwhite attendees. Though the political upheaval of the ... -
CDF Freedom Schools : Examining the History of an Effective Teaching Model for African American Students in Urban Communities
(2014)In 2012, the author participated in an internship as a teacher at a summer camp entitled Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC) Freedom School in Chicago, Illinois teaching urban second graders the value of reading. Through ... -
The Portrait of a Lady : Identity, Gender, and Power in Colonial American Portraiture
(2017)In eighteenth-century Boston, elite families commissioned portraits to hang in their city mansions as decorations and reminders of a specific moment in their lives. The custom, which gained prominence in the second half ... -
Not Al Diamonds Are Created Equal : The Transition from Women's Baseball to Women's Softball in Midwestern Colleges, 1902-1955
(2017)The forces of culture and gender at work in the Midwest in the first half of the twentieth century, and their relation to women's baseball, can only be understood by examining when and how colleges presented women's ... -
The German Empire's Jewish Subjects
(2017)The goal of this paper is to look not just at the status Jews had during this period, but at what measures Jews took to both integrate into the majority German community— to adapt into their community a sense of "German-ness"—and ... -
The Trek : The Evolution of National Identity Among WWII Polish Refugees Deported from Soviet-Occupied Poland
(2017)The author conducted interviews with three Polish refugees, including his grandfather. Polish national identity and connection to home appeared to evolve throughout the journey of Polish deportees-turned-refugees during ... -
Racial and Ethnic Tensions as Sources of Civil Unrest in Early to Mid-Nineteenth Century America
(2016)While a comparison and contrast between the history of civil unrest in the United States and those of other nations would undoubtedly yield enormous fruit, major American civil unrest events can also be analyzed, to great ... -
Historiography of Military Conducts for the Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1931-1945)
(2016)The following paper examines how scholars have conceptualized three different aspects of the war: (1) Japan's aggressive and coordinated approach to avoid a protracted war, (2) the tactics used to counter both Communists ... -
Storyville : The Story of New Orleans's Legal Red Light District, 1897 to 1917
(2017)Storyville represents more than sex and scandal. Our modern day assumptions about prostitution and what is now called sex work cloud our ability to look at red light districts as something more than institutions that exploit ... -
The Rejection of Mexican Political Asylum Seekers in the United States : The Mexican Drug War and Its Legal and Political Implication
(2017)This research demonstrates that political biases do exist toward Mexican asylum seekers, causing their cases to be denied; it further posits that by understanding Calderon's war on drugs as a failure that has made the state ... -
Boundaries on the "Wild" : Late Nineteenth-Century Governmental Language Concerning Yellowstone National Park and the American Indian
(2017)This project examines how these two differing land preserves with opposite goals were promoted and defended in similar ways and run in similar manners. It examines the reservations and the park through the governmental ... -
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 ... -
To Protect American Interests : An Evaluation of Justice Sutherland's "Sole Organ" Doctrine
(2017)This paper attempts to explain Sutherland's controversial language by placing Curtiss-Wright in a deeper historical context. It will be broken into six sections. Section I revisits the beginning of Sutherland's political ... -
The Hundred Years War : The Chagrin of Nobles and Delight of Kings
(2017)During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries England and France were tied in a conflict that would come to be known as the Hundred Years War, a string of conflicts fought for control of the French crown and an era that ... -
Unsucessful But Not Unimportant : Analyzing the Story of the 1825 Treaty of Prairie du Chien
(2017)This 1825 treaty was unique because it was one of very few treaties that did not ask the nations who signed it to give up anything to the United States in terms of land cessions or land access. Its purpose, at the most ... -
The Secret History of Birth Control : American Birth Control until 1900
(2017)For centuries, America women have attempted to gain control over their bodies and uncouple sex from childbirth. And for those same centuries women have had varying success in this. However, this success has come at a cost ...
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