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 Consumers 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 Courts 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 Its 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 Didnt 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 Whos 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 Paines 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 Nations 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