Browsing History Senior Integrated Projects by Title
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Abolitionism, Temperance, and Women's Rights in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Role of the Hutchinson Family Singers
(1988)This paper will focus on the Hutchinson Family Singers, a group of musicians whom the author believes ought to be known by anyone with an interest in music or the past. Beginning their career in 1840, they were one of ... -
Abraham Lincoln the Politician, as Witnessed in the Election of 1864
(1969)Here is the essence of the presidency, my thesis and an analysis of Abraham Lincoln. In the search to answer what is the presidency we can be deluded into believing many illusory characteristics of the man who occupies ... -
Accessibility of Local History Documents and Artifacts in the City of Kalamazoo
(1981)As a student assistant at the Kalamazoo Public Museum, I conducted an analysis of the accessibility of local history documents and artifacts in various institutions in the city of Kalamazoo. My analysis was conducted in ... -
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 ... -
Acts Governed by Fear: A Study of National Hysteria in America
(1967)My main concern was to study and describe the events which took place, and, where possible, to explain how and why they were allowed to take place. In this way I hoped to shed some light on the principles in question. -
Acupuncture in the West: The History, Western Discovery, and its Transition from East to West
(2004)The subject of this paper was inspired by my cousin, David. My cousin has been diagnosed with acute hypoglycemia and several severe food allergies to things such as wheat, flour, and garlic. Before he was diagnosed, he ... -
Adam Smith and Enlightenment Philosophy in Scotland
(1987)My initial interest in Enlightenment Philosophy grew from undergraduate studies in eighteenth century France and the French Revolution. These studies, under the direction of Dr. David Barclay, Kalamazoo College Professor ... -
African Politics in the Transkei: 1963-1976
(1978)The major problem encountered in undertaking a study of almost any underdeveloped third-world nation is that of uncovering reliable sources of information. This problem is accentuated in the case of South Africa's,Transkei. ... -
AGENDA 2010: The Crisis of the Gennan Welfare State and the Need for Reform
(2004)In this paper I intend to examine how these principles exist today and the problems they present to the German economy when in conjunction with the current population shift. I will present these facts in light of the ... -
Aircraft versus Submarine: The Integration of Aircraft into Naval Operations during the Battle of the Atlantic
(2005)The focus of this work will be the Atlantic theater, with an almost exclusive concentration on the Battle of the Atlantic, which was the core of the entire Atlantic theater and lasted the entire length of the war, from ... -
Alaska's Territorial Delegates 1906-1958
(1973)A history of Alaska's Territorial Delegates to Congress offers a unique view of the politics of America's last frontier. Between 1906 and 1958, eight men in turn represented the Alaskan territory in Washington. D.C. through ... -
Alfred North Whitehead's Philosophy of History
(1972)My purpose in writing this paper is not difficult to describe: I have tried to become intimately acquainted with Alfred North Whitchead's philosophy of' history. Because of' this goal of intimate acquaintance, the paper ... -
All Dressed Up: Gender and Class in Elite American Women's Clothing of the Eighteenth Century
(2007)In an effort to most efficiently and interestingly demonstrate the evolutions in fashion that embodied the gender and class roles and definitions of the years between 1750 and 1800, the following examination will look ... -
All-American City: Grand Rapids, Michigan In the Cold War
(1998)My research project was an outgrowth of my ongoing interest in local history, specifically that of my hometown of Grand Rapids, and a more recent interest which developed from Dr. Barclay's junior seminar on the Cold ... -
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and the Discourse on Native American Treatment in the Early Spanish Colonial Period
(2013)In many ways the uniqueness of Cabeza de Vaca' s view as a conqueror desirous of fair treatment of those he conquered parallels the conflicted nature of the broader Spanish conquest of the New World. In a position of ... -
The American Bicentennial from the Perspective of Syracuse and Onondaga County, New York
(1975)The observance of the American Bicentennial is an occasion which presented itself during the period of my Senior Independent Project. I decided to explore the organization and activities of this celebration by working on ...