Topic Ideas for 2014 History Fair
2014 Theme is “Rights and Responsibilities in History”
The Birth of the Declaration of Independence
Homeland Security: The impact of fighting terrorism on our right to privacy
Jim Crow Laws: The Government's Neglected Responsibility
Federal Conscience: Sheltering the Homeless
The My Lai Massacre: The Wrong Way to Kill
Showdown in the South: Freedom Riders Fight for the Right to Ride Free
Children without Childhood: The Neglect of Children's Rights During the Industrial Revolution
Women's Responsibility in the Military: "The Right to Fight?"
Milk Strikes of 1933
No Way Out: Triangle Shirt Waist Fire
The right not to be a mother: Margaret Sanger & Birth Control
Dr. Josef Mengele: A doctor's responsibility to help, not harm
A City Divided: The History of the Berlin Wall
Resisting the Draft: Moral and Political Opposition During the Vietnam War
U.S. Government vs. Japanese Americans: Violation of Civil Rights Through Internment Camps
Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens in Ancient Athens
The Dust of Life: The Vietnam War and Hmong Rights
Child Labor: The Irresponsible Violation of Child Rights
Politics, Painters, and People: The Rights and Responsibilities of the National Endowment for the Arts in
its Rocky Past and Uncertain Future
Babies in the Mill: The Crusade Against Child Labor During the Industrial Revolution
It's a Rich Man's War but a Poor Man's Right
Lewis Hine: Viewing Human Rights Through a Different Lens
Women's Suffrage
From Truck Drivers to Typists and Clerks to Cops: The Rights and Responsibilities of Women in World
War II
Seasons Without Sunshine: Women and Children During the Industrial Revolution
To Keep a Light
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Hank Aaron: Fighting for Rights and Responsibilities of African-Americans in Baseball
The Vietnam Anti-War Movement: When Protesters Go Too Far
Frederick Douglass and His Fight for Freedom
The Transcontinental Railroad: The Right to "TRACK" Across the Country
The Sound of Change and the Right of Expression: The Right to be Different, Equal and Free
Across the Lines: The Central High School Story
The Palmer Raids: Overstepping Boundaries; Trampling Rights
The Dreyfus Affair
The Treaty of Versailles in 1918 and its Consequences
Brown v. Board of Education and the Integration of American Schools
The Tuskegee Airmen
“The Jungle” and the Consumer’s Right to Safe Food
Gideon v. Wainwright
1st Seminole War
Angel of Death: Dr. Jack Kevorkian
Trail of Tears
Salem Witch Trials
Fair Labor Standards Act
Corporate Rights and the Supreme Court’s Interpretation of the 14th Amendment
Napoleonic Code
Solidarity: The Polish Spirit
It's a Toxic Day in the Neighborhood: The Story of Lois Gibbs
We Shall Overcome: The Battle for the Ballot
Through the Lies of Yellow Journalism
Writes v. Responsibilities: Supreme Court Supports School Censorship
Sarah Bagley and the Women's Labor Unions
The Panic Broadcast of 1938: A Responsible Right to Touch That Dial
Rights and Responsibilities of Creating and Using the Atomic Bomb
The G.I. Bill of Rights
Holy Smokes: The Government's Responsibility to Balance the Rights of the Tobacco Industry and
Consumers
Eminent Domain: From Use to Abuse
A. Philip Randolph: Fight or Be Slaves
Power to the Press
Cherokee Removal: The Tragic Trail of Broken Promises
It’s Debatable: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Sparking the Debate, Abolitionist's Responsibilities vs. States’ Rights
Rights & Responsibilities: The Crusade Against Child Labor
Mahatma: The Great Soul
Fannie Lou Hamer: African American Voting Rights
To Inoculate or Not to Inoculate
Miranda v. Arizona: The Crime That Changed American Justice
A Historical Perspective: The Right to Health Care
The Taft-Hartley Act: An Abuse of Worker Rights?
The Stonewall Riot: A Seminal Event in Gay Rights
The United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Why It Didn’t Work
The Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936
A Right Denied: The Dredd Scott Decision
Rights and Responsibilities in Medieval Guilds
Louis XIV and Divine Right
Moral Responsibility: Apartheid and the Boycott of South Africa
An Eye for an Eye: Responsibility Under the Code of Hammurabi
By Who’s Right? Papal Authority and the Treaty of Tordesillas
Bushido: Rights and Responsibilities of the Samurai
Lincoln and the Writ of Habeas Corpus: Rightfully Denied?
No Right to Govern: Thomas Paine’s The Rights of Man and His Argument Against Hereditary Rule
Our Right to Freedom: The Influence of The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen on the
Haitian Revolution
Equal Rights: Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
Magna Carta: Rights of the individual against the arbitrary authority of the despot
Patrick Pearse and the 1916 Easter Rising
The Loss of Huguenot Rights and the Edict of Fontainebleau
Rights of Faith: Martin Luther and the Ninety-five Theses
Promoting Responsibility: MADD and Its Campaign Against Drunk Driving
Social Security Act: A Nation’s Responsibility to Senior Citizens
Ford Pinto Gas Tank Fires: A Lack of Corporate Responsibility?
A Tool of Romanization: The Edict of Caracalla and the Rights of Citizenship