History Day - Rights & Responsibilities

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Possible Topics

These are a few topics that you might consider focusing into a History Day Project. See sub-pages for subjects and a few suggested resources to get you started.

• Monuments - honoring past, caring for present. Honest representation.
• Education
  • Sheff v O'Neill
  • Prudence Crandall
  • Brown v Board of Education
  • Special Education
    • ADA, IDEA
• Housing
  • Redlining
• Human Rights
  • Capital Punishment
  • medical care
• Draft, Conscription
  • Conscientious Objectors , peace
  • Selective Training and Service Act of 1940
• Indigenous peoples
  • Federal/State Recognition
  • First contact
• Animal Rights
• Property Rights
  • Eminent Domain
  • Smith Sisters
  • Women and marriage rights
• Medical
  • human experimentation
  • informed consent
  • reproductive rights
    • Griswold v Connecticut
    • Roe v Wade
    • Dobbs
  • National/universal healthcare
• Religion
  • Quakers in colonial CT
• Civil Rights
  • voting rights
    • African American suffrage
    • Woman's Suffrage
    • gerrymandering
  • segregation
    • Sheff v O'Neill
    • redlining
• Prohibition & Temperance Movement
• WWII
  • internment of Japanese-Americans and Native Alaskans
• Reproductive Rights
  • Marriage property rights
  • pre-quickening common  law
  • Griswold v Connecticut
    •  381 U.S. 479 (1965)
      • 381 U.S. 479 ; 85 S. Ct. 1678; 14 L. Ed. 2d 510; 1965 U.S. LEXIS 2282
    • right to marital privacy and the limitation of family size
  • Roe v Wade
    • 410 U.S. 113 (1973)
  • Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, 579 U.S. 582 (2016)
    • The decision in Hellerstedt was overruled when the Supreme Court repudiated Roe v. Wade and the court-created right to abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 597 U.S. 215 (2022).
  • Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization 
    • 597 U.S. 215 (2022)
  • Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992)
  • 1821 Ct Law 

Please be advised that some of these resources--particularly those created in previous eras--contain descriptions for ancestral, racial, ethnic, and gender identity that may be offensive or harmful to individuals investigating these records, and are considered inappropriate to use in modern times. The descriptions and treatment of historically marginalized groups, women, and animals may be upsetting. Also, please note that inclusion in this subject guide does not necessarily constitute endorsement of the views therein--we encourage investigators to use their own judgment when evaluating books, websites, articles, documents, and other resources.