Skip to Main Content

Bruton High School Virginia History Day (Fall 2025)

Examples

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

  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

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

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

  6. Mother Teresa and her stance on abortion

    • Essays by Teresa about Abortion.

      • see Books in Worldcat

        • The abortion controversy Authors Charles P Cozic 1957- Jonathan S Petrikin 1963- Print Book©1995

          • includes essay Abortion rights should be restricted. Laws should protect unborn children / Mother Teresa

        • Abortion : opposing viewpoints Authors Tamara L Roleff 1959- Print Book©1997 San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, ©1997.

          • includes essay Abortion is a selfish choice / Mother Teresa

    • Books by Teresa that address abortion

      • NOTE: these are not full text. Find the book titles this way, then use this as an index.

        • ex we see Where There Is Love, There Is God: Her Path to Closer Union ...books.google.com › books Mother Teresa · 2012. includes a quote on pg 98; we see Reaching Out In Love , Mother Teresa, ‎Edward Le Joly, ‎Jaya Chaliha · 1999 has aquote on pg 57

    • Writings about Teresa and abortion, published during her lifetime

  7. Stonewall Riots

    • newspaper coverage as it happened

    • Scanned archival documents

      • ex (Scroll down to manuscripts.

    • Writings by participants in published works. See:

      • Marsha : the joy and defiance of Marsha P. Johnson / Tourmaline 2025,

      • A hard rain : America in the 1960s, our decade of hope, possibility, and innocence lost / Frye Gaillard 2018,

      • Gay is good : the life and letters of gay rights pioneer Franklin Kameny / Frank Kameny;  Michael G Long 2014

      • Eyewitness to America : 500 years of America in the words of those who saw it happen / David Colbert 1997

        • see chapt "Stonewall, July 3, 1969"

      • Documenting Intimate matters : primary sources for a history of sexuality in America / Thomas A Foster;  John D'Emilio 2012, ©2013

        • see chapt "Mattachine Society : Stonewall Rebellion (1969)"

      • 1960s counterculture : documents decoded / Jim Willis 2015

        • see "Full moon over the Stonewall" / Howard Smith's article in the Village Voice, July 2, 1969

      • Gender : roles & rights / Micah L Issitt 2018, ©2018

        • see The Stonewall Riots : birth of the Gay Rights Movement (1969)

      • Gender and sexuality : essential primary sources / K Lee Lerner;  Brenda 

        • see Four Policemen Hurt in 'Villager' Raid -- Anonymous, June 29, 1969

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

    • I think you'll need to narrow it down a bit because this is a broad topic. I suggest starting with secondary works to both narrow your topic and to be pointed to interesting types of primary sources. See

      • Clinging to mammy : the faithful slave in twentieth-century America / Micki McElya 2007

      • Images of Blacks in American culture : a reference guide to information sources / Jessie Carney Smith;  Nikki Giovanni 1988

      • Mammy : a century of race, gender, and Southern memory / Kimberly Wallace-Sanders 2008, ©2008

    • In Worldcat I tried a search for (su= "African American women") and kw: advert* and yr: 1870-1940 and la= "eng" and found a wide variety of material (Ex)

      • we will talk in class!

  9. Desegregation/Integration in Alexandria Virginia schools during the 1960s and 70s.