Bruton High School Virginia History Day (Fall 2025)

Secondary Sources are works written about your topic AFTER they happened. They provide context, analysis , and useful facts you need to better understand and explain your primary sources.

1. Bruton High School history
   • Nothing specifically on Bruton in our collection, but I tried:
     • williamsburg AND (school* OR education) to find books
       • see works like History of Public Schools in Williamsburg
     • virginia AND (school* OR education) AND history to find books
       • see books like The development of public schools in Virginia
     • It maybe interesting to look at histories of earlier schools in Williamsburg for comparison, such as 
       • A history of the Matthew Whaley High School
       • A history of black education and Bruton Heights School, Williamsburg, Virginia
     • For context, histories of Williamsburg as a city

2.  How intersectionality in the feminist literature movement was a revolution that resulted in making it more inclusive of different narratives

   • intersectionality AND femini* AND literature 

     • books

     • Articles

   • intersectionality AND (liter* OR femin*)

     • books

     • articles

3.  Elizabeth Key Grinstead who was a mixed-race woman who went to fight for her freedom which caused a reform of slave laws making them stricter

   • "Elizabeth Key Grinstead" OR "elizabeth Grinstead"

     • JSTOR

     • Library catalog 

     • Worldcat

   • "Elizabeth Key" AND (slave* OR enslaved)

     • catalog

     • articles

     • broader results in JSTOR

     • worldcat

4. How the Norman conquest of 1066 reformed England socially and politically.

   • "norman conquest" AND reform

     • books/articles in catalog

   • "norman conquest" AND (social OR political)

     • books in catalog 

   • "norman conquest" AND (social OR political) AND reform

     • books an articles in catalog

   • ("norman conquest" OR "norman invasion" OR 1066) AND reform* 

     • books

       • see final chapt of Religion, politics and society in Britain, 800-1066 Redgate, A. E. (Anne Elizabeth), author. 2014; London ; New York : Routledge

5.  Rock 'n' Roll Revolution and how it impacted youth culture of the fifties and how it's carried on since then.

   • "rock music" AND "youth culture"

     • books

   • ("rock music" OR "rock and roll") AND "popular culture" AND (teen* OR youth)

     • articles 

     • books

6. Mother Teresa and her stance on abortion

   • ("Mother Teresa" OR Bojaxhiu) AND abortion*

     • books and articles in catalog

     • articles in EBSCO

       • worth skimming, but here is a narrow selection

     • Books in Worldcat (there are primary sources in here too!)

7. Stonewall Riots

   • "Stonewall Riots" OR "stonewall riot" OR "stonewall uprising"

     • books

     • articles 

8. Portrayal of black women during Jim Crow era in white culture, print, music, advertising

   • "African American women" AND "jim crow"

     • books

       • of possible interest is Disfigured images : the historical assault on Afro-American women

     • "African American women" AND history AND (advert* OR media)

       • books

         • see Style & status : selling beauty to African American women, 1920-1975 and Slave in a box : the strange career of Aunt Jemima

       • books for African American women in advertising

9. Desegregation/Integration in Alexandria Virginia schools during the 1960s and 70s. 
   • (segregation OR Desegregation OR integration) AND virginia AND (school* OR education)
     • ​​​​​​​books
     • articles
   • ​​​​​​​(segregation OR Desegregation OR integration) AND virginia AND (school* OR education) AND alexandria
     • 1 article. Unfortunately very few libraries have a copy
       • the library that has the main copy also has excellent primary sources.
   • (Alexandria AND (va* OR virginia) AND history AND (School* OR education))
     • worldcat (all books that exist, not just the ones at WM or at WRL)