“Taking a Stand in History” Local National History Day Topics
Western Pennsylvania People
 Charles Avery- early abolitionist and civic leader
 Margaret Byington- “The Pittsburgh Survey” / reformer-social worker
 Rachael Carson – “ Silent Spring”
 Father James Cox- Social activist/ Cox’s Army
 H.J. Heinz – Pure Food and Drug Act
 Elsie Hillman – civic activist
 David Lawrence – Pittsburgh Renaissance
 George Marshall – The Marshall Plan
 Michael Musmanno – judicial leader and Nuremberg Judge
 Martha Rial – “Trek of Tears” Pultizer Prize for work in Africa
 Charles Owen Rice – Labor priest
 Rob Rodgers – Political Cartoonist
 Jones Salk – Use of live virus for vaccine
 Nate Smith – Operation Dig
 Lincoln Steffens – “Shame of Cities “
 Jane Grey Swisshelm- abolitionist
 Molly Yard – NOW
 Martin Delany – Remarkable life multiple topics
 Robert Morris – Financing the Revolution
 Albert W. Bloom – “ Jewish Chronicle “ of Pittsburgh
 George McMurtry - building of a “ Model Town “ – Vandergrift
 Peter Duff – establish first business college in the United States
 Mary Irwin Laughlin – founding of Children Institute
 Cumberland Posey – forms Homestead Grays
 Edwin Nathaniel Harleston – founding of the “ Pittsburgh Courier”
 Richard Caliguiri - Renaissance II
Western Pennsylvania Events
 Pontiac’s Rebellion
 The Whiskey Rebellion
 Young Washington’s trip to Western Pa to ask the French to vacate the territory
 The Homestead Steel Strike
 Railroad Strike of 1877
 Battle of Bushy Run
 Underground Railroad in Western Pa
 Building of Fort Lafayette – 1792 – 1814
 The Animal Rescue League Shelter & Wildlife Center (ARL) was formed in 1909
 African Education Society of Pittsburgh founded in 1832
 Catholic Sisters of Mercy establish Mercy Hospital, first hospital in Pittsburgh
 Donora Smog – industrial pollution
 Construction of Civic Arena – Impact on a city and a neighborhood
 Federation of Organized Trade and Labor Unions convention 1881 – start of American Federation of Labor
 Pittsburgh Agreement – memorandum of understanding that creates independent Czechoslovakia