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Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

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[Exhibition] Votes for Women: Vassar and the Politics of Women's Suffrage

Publication Date
2024-January-09
Authors
Cohen, Miriam, 1950-
Seidl, Mark
Department or Program
Vassar College Libraries
History Department
Document Type
Archived Website
Access Level
Open
Abstract

2020 marked the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. That victory had been the goal of suffrage activists since the middle of the 19th century and was the result of countless...

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Does Might Make Right? An Exploration of Policing in the Shanghai French Concession

Publication Date
2020-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Sun, Alex
Department or Program
Asian Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

This thesis examines the use of policing to quell social unrest as a form of state management in the Shanghai's French Concession during the early twentieth century.

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From Public to Private Space: The Territorialization of the Poughkeepsie City School District And the Four Pillars Charter School

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Schlosser, Anna
Department or Program
Education Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

Within the contemporary landscape of public education reform, educational actors are re- directing their hopes and visions for equitable and collaborative change outside of public space and into private territories, such as charter schools. The effort to establish the Four...

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