Example Paper Topics

Members of the Lansing Woman's Club present papers of a variety of topics. See below for a sampling of titles of papers from the last few years:

2022-2023

· The Borrowing Brilliance of Lung Transplantation

· Music against the Odds

· Social Justice and Democracy: What we can learn from early Women Economists

· A little World of Woe: Women and Children in Michigan State Institutions

· A tribute to Joan Witter – The Ways of Ernest Hemmingway

· The Life of Gladys Olds Anderson, Early LWC Member and Daughter of Ransom E. Olds

· Pareidolia: Do You See What I See?

· History of Firefighting in the United States

· What They Taught Us in Schools: Myths about Reconstruction

· It Holds 21% of the World’s Fresh Water: What is it?

· Fast Fashion: The High Cost of Cheap Clothing

· World War II Trench Art

· What Can Dangle From Your Family Tree

· American Cuisine

· Midcentury Modern Architecture

· If Flowers Could Talk

· Robert Frost

· A Social History of Tea

2021-2022

· Isle Royale and the Balance of Nature

· The Lansing I Knew

· A Reason to Smile

· A Glimpse of Old Lansing: Through the Eyes of Seymour Foster and Mary Louisa Woodworth

· Coffee Culture

· A History of the LWC Archive

· A Word from the Wise

· The Pack Horse Library Project

· Hurrah for the Yellow and Blue

· Owls: Facts and Fables

· Three Days of Peace and Music

· The Mitfords

· A Woman for our Times

· Charles Dickens: Quintessential Victorian Author

· Embracing Our Wise Woman Status, Can You?

· But Is This Art? All in the Eye of the Beholder

· Dr. Mary Edwards Walker

2020-2021

· Wilma Mankiller, An American Hero

· Temperature, Pressure, and Humidity

· Evolution of a Dutch Girl

· 5G Surrounds You: The Progeny of the Beast We Embrace

· Get Up

· Seasons Greetings: American Christmas Cards from Victorian to Mid-Century Modern

· Seduction: Body Image in Advertising

· Poliomyelitis and the Miracle of Hickory

· Abstract Women

· The Propinquity Principle

· The Saga of Two American Birdmen

· John Ruskin

· From Bloomers to Bicycle Attire

· Designed to Addict

· Matilda Margaret and the 5 B’s

· The Oklahoma Land Rushes

· Stacking the Deck Against Dementia

· Friends of Bill

· Handwriting Analysis

· Adding Spices to Our Lives

· The Real Pirates of the Caribbean