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A Dazzling Détente: Exploring The Cultural Facets Of The Kennedys’ 1961 Visit To Paris And The Instrumental Role Of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Maxwell Riley Toth
A Dazzling Détente: Exploring The Cultural Facets Of The Kennedys’ 1961 Visit To Paris And The Instrumental Role Of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Maxwell Riley Toth
Senior Projects Spring 2022
This project is an exploration into John and Jackie Kennedy’s 1961 trip to Paris, France, only four months after the former was inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States. In discussing this state visit, scholars often analyze it through a political lens—specifically, the gravity of the issues a novice President Kennedy (1917–1963) and an avuncular President de Gaulle (1890–1969) discussed tête-à-tête, and the visit’s role as a stepping stone to Kennedy’s weighty conversation with Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna days later. Yet, outside of the conference room at the Élysée, cultural moments and gestures throughout the sojourn offer insights …
Weaponizing Ballet: An Episode In American Cold War Diplomacy, Remy Laray Naumann
Weaponizing Ballet: An Episode In American Cold War Diplomacy, Remy Laray Naumann
Senior Projects Spring 2022
In October 1962, as American citizens were building bomb shelters in their backyards, the New York City Ballet toured the Soviet Union, receiving raving applause from Soviet audiences. The tour is just one example of the many ballet exchanges in the late 1950s and early 1960s between the United States and the Soviet Union. In these acts of cultural diplomacy, ballet companies became ideological weapons, selling their country's achievements to audiences abroad.
Tours such as the New York City Ballet’s 1962 trip have been acknowledged in analyses on cultural diplomacy between the US and Soviet Union in the Cold War …
The Sale Of The Romanian-Germans (1969-1989): Migration, Minority Status, And The Construction Of Ceaușescu’S Maverick State, Nicholas Kennan Hermann
The Sale Of The Romanian-Germans (1969-1989): Migration, Minority Status, And The Construction Of Ceaușescu’S Maverick State, Nicholas Kennan Hermann
Senior Projects Spring 2021
This project attempts to reassess the paid emigration of Romania's German minority, specifically focusing on its role in the formation of Ceaușescu’s Romania as a semi-independent state during the Cold War. Topics explored include Cold War diplomacy, concepts of diaspora and citizenship, and the legacy of the Ceaușescu regime.
A Historiographical And Pedagogical Pursuit Of The United States In The Atomic Era, Isabel Polletta
A Historiographical And Pedagogical Pursuit Of The United States In The Atomic Era, Isabel Polletta
History - Master of Arts in Teaching
I. Synthesis Essay………………………………...3
II. Primary Documents and Headnotes………...29
III. Textbook Critique……………………………..41
IV. New Textbook Entry…………………………..43
V. Bibliography…………………………………....46
“Communism May Be The Only Alternative If America Walks Away”: The Reagan Administration And The Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act Of 1986, Abby Townend
Senior Projects Spring 2020
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.