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Bruton High School Virginia History Day (Fall 2024)

Secondary Sources

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.

Examples

  1. Counterculture Protest Music during Vietnam War

    • (Counterculture OR "counter culture" OR protest) AND music AND "vietnam war"

      • Books (examples "We gotta get out of this place : the soundtrack of the Vietnam War " and " Music and protest in 1968)"

      • Articles (examples "American Popular Music and the War in Vietnam"

  2. The closing of mental institutions in the 1960s/70s

    • ("psychiatric hospitals" OR "mental health institutions" OR asylums OR "mental health hospitals") AND history AND "united states"

      • Books (examples "From asylum to prison : deinstitutionalization and the rise of mass incarceration after 1945" and "Asylum : inside the closed world of state mental hospitals" and "The architecture of madness : insane asylums in the United States" and "Asylum ways of seeing : psychiatric patients, American thought and culture"

      • Articles (Examples "The Final Years of Central State Hospital" or "FROM ASYLUM TO PENITENTIARY: THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF EASTERN OREGON CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION UPON PENDLETON."

  3. Jazz Artists of Harlem Renaissance

    • ""Harlem renaissance" AND Jazz 

      • books (examples: "A history of the Harlem Renaissance" or "Harlem speaks : a living history of the Harlem Renaissance" or "Brotherhood in rhythm: the jazz tap dancing of the Nicholas brothers")

      • Articles (Examples: "Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules" or " Black music: pathmaker of the Harlem renaissance. Black music: pathmaker of the Harlem renaissance."

        • Note: you'll find more books and articles looking for a specific musician

  4. Photographers/Journalists during Civil Rights Movement

    • (photographer* OR journalist*) AND "civil rights movement"

      • Books (Ex "Advancing the civil rights movement : race and geography of Life magazine's visual representation, 1954-1965" or "This light of ours activist photographers of the civil rights movement")

      • Articles (EX ""I Take the Pictures as I See Them": Doris Derby as Womanist, Activist and Photographer in the Civil Rights Movement." OR "EYEWITNESS: Through important and provocative articles in the Chicago Defender journalist Ethel Payne introduced Alabama's civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s to a wider audience"

  5. Concentration Camp survivors

    • "Holocaust survivors" OR ("concentration camps" AND survivor*)

      • quite a few books and articles

      • May need to narrow to:

        • Holocaust AND ("concentration camps" OR "concentration camp") AND survivor*

          • books (ex "Medical and psychological effects of concentration camps on Holocaust survivors")

          • articles (Ex, "Who is a Survivor? Child Holocaust Survivors and the Development of a Generational Identity"

  6. AIDS crisis in the gay community 1980s.

    • AIDS AND (crisis OR pandemic OR epidemic) AND (gay OR queer OR lgbt*)

      • books (See chapters in "AIDS, identity, and community : the HIV epidemic and lesbians and gay men" or "Positive images : gay men & HIV/AIDS in the culture of 'post crisis'" or "Infectious ideas : U.S. political responses to the AIDS crisis"

      • articles (ex "One Out Gay Cop: Gay Moderates, Proposition 64, and Policing in Early AIDS-Crisis Los Angeles, 1969–1992." or "The Church and the AIDS Crisis in New York City."

  7. women's rights in Virginia during the Suffrage Movement

    • ("womens rights" OR womens suffrage") AND virginia

      • books (Ex "The campaign for woman suffrage in Virginia")

      • articles (ex "WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN VIRGINIA: THE EQUAL SUFFRAGE LEAGUE AND PRESSURE-GROUP POLITICS, 1909-1920.")

  8. The start of slavery in English colonies 1619
    • (slavery OR "slave trade") AND 1619
      • books (examples: "Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807" or "The United States and the African slave trade, 1619-1862" or "Slavery in colonial America, 1619-1776" or "Virginia 1619 : slavery and freedom in the making of English America"
      • articles (revised search) (ex "VIRGINIA AND SLAVERY IN THE 17TH CENTURY."