President Truman’s Monumental Decision: The Acceptance of the United Nations’ Partition Plan for Palestine

This essay analyzes the decision of President Harry Truman to accept the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine. It analyzes the role of the international community in the creation of this plan. This includes the United States Department of State, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, the Arabs of Palestine, the Arab League, and the newly-minted United Nations. Furthermore, it details the roles of Truman’s domestic advisers, his personal beliefs, and his desire to win re-election in 1948 in the scope of the situation unfolding in Palestine. This document explains what led President Truman to support the UN Partition Plan; specifically, it will seek to understand why Truman made his decision against the advice of his allies and his foreign policy advisers and to make the decision that he did

An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Urban Streetscape of Budapest's Andrassy Ut

Color poster with text, photographs, and maps.As Budapest embarks on a massive redevelopment project that will convert Andrassy Ut from mixed use corridor into the tourism-focused Andrassy Quarter, this study marks an important transition period in the boulevard's history.Blugold Commitment; University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Office of Research and Sponsored Program

The Castle District of Budapest : Housing Before and After War and Revolution

Color poster with text, maps, table, and photos.The goal of this research was to study the changes in buildings and streets in the Castle District of Budapest.University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Office of Research and Sponsored Programs

1848 Obuda : A Social Portrait From a Forgotten Census

Color poster with text, map, images, and tables.The purpose of this study is to analyze the 1848 census that was taken in Obuda, a northern suburb of Budapest. This project is important because this is the first time that this census has been totaled and analyzed.University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Office of Research and Sponsored Programs

An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Urban Streetscape of Budapest's Andrassy Ut

As Budapest's most prominent boulevard, Andrassy Ut (Andrassy Way) exhibits a variety of urban land uses designed to showcase Hungarian history and culture and provide modern housing and leisure amenities for the city's elite. Designed and constructed in the 1870s, it is anchored in by Erzsebet tor (Erzsebet Square) in the city center and extends 2.42 km (1.5 mi) northeast to Varosliget (City Park). This study, conducted in summer 2014 by students in UW-Eau Claire's interdisciplinary Central European Travel Seminar (CETS), examined the cultural streetscape of the boulevard through the lens of geography, history, and music. Teams of researchers were dispatched to designated stretches of Andrassy Ut to document the ways in which historically and musically significant buildings and institutions coincide with high-end residential and commercial land uses. Landscape analysis was then utilized to document concentrations of specific types of land uses. As the city embarks on a massive redevelopment project that will convert Andrassy Ut from mixed use corridor into the tourism-focused Andrassy Quarter, this study marks an important transition period in the boulevard's history