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National History Day in Nevada
Rights and Responsibilities2014
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Unpacking the Theme
• This year’s theme, Rights and Responsibilities in History, is broad. This means you can choose a topic that allows you to explore your own interests, whether it’s science, politics, the arts, education—you name it. Inspiration can come from most any place: local history, your textbooks, or perhaps recent headlines, TV shows or even the latest Twitter feed.
• With rights come responsibilities, whether they involve exercising rights within specified limits or ensuring the rights of others. You might find it tempting to focus mostly on rights in your project, but remember that this year’s theme also encompasses responsibilities.
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Let’s think about this year’s theme. What are rights? Are responsibilities always attached to rights? Are there times when rights protect some while disenfranchising others—and is that fair? Do we have economic rights? Are civil rights upheld at the same level for everyone in the United States? What are our rights as global citizens? And what about animal rights—do humans bear responsibility for non-humans? These are just a few questions you might ask as you begin your research.
To explore a topic’s historical importance, you have to answer the question, “So what?” You must address questions about time and place, cause and effect, change over time, and impact and significance. Always try to do more than just describe what happened. Draw conclusions about how the topic affected individuals, communities, other nations and the world as a whole. This helps give your research historical context.
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Project Options• Group or individual options:
– Exhibit– Documentary)– Website– Performance (must get it approved by teachers)
• Paper (must be alone)
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EXHIBITS
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Steps to Success1. Brainstorm events, ideas, or people
that spark your interest. 2. Narrow down your list to one or two
topics relating to the theme.3. Research your topics using the web
and books.4. Choose your final topic.5. Research your final topic. Make sure
to analyze the sources you are using.6. Choose how you will present your
topic.
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Brainstorm events, ideas, or people that spark your interest
• Think, think, and think!
• Choose a time period, person, or event that you are most interested in.
• Maybe it is something that you didn’t get to learn about in class?
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NARROW DOWN YOUR TOPICS TO ONE OR TWO TOPICS RELATING TO THE THEME
• After you have a few ideas that interest you....
• think about if/how this topic relates to the theme.
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Research Your Topics The first task of a historian is to find a great
deal of information about the topic.
Do not do all of your research on the web!
Think outside the box:– Museums– State Records/ Archives– Photos– Libraries– Books
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Choose Your Final Topic• When choosing your topic, choose the
topic that interests you but also has substantial amounts of resources to help you with your research.
• Try to narrow down your topic but do not narrow it too far where it is difficult to find information on it.
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There are many ways to find topics…
• What topics interest you?
• Immigration, Ethnicity• Politics, Law• Labor, business• Technology, medicine• Arts, literature• Sports, Media•Civil and human rights• Women’s issues• Environment
–— everything has a history!
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• What current events or issues concern you?
• What career do you want to have as an adult?
• What period of history is most intriguing for you?
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• To explore a topic’s historical importance, you have to answer the following…
1. “So what?”2. Time and place3. Cause and effect, 4. Change over time, and 5. Impact 6. Significance. Always try to do more than just describe what happened. Draw conclusions about how the topic affected individuals, communities, other nations and the world as a whole. This helps give your research historical context.
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Your History Fair
Topic Question
It’s history – happened
in the past, and shows
change over time. It’s
connected to Nevada.
It can be argued --
interpreted.
It’s got sources.
It’s historically significant.
It uses the NHD theme for analysis.
It’s got soul!
YOU CARE ABOUT IT!
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NHD THEME
What changed? How and why? What was the impact? What was its significance?
Research!!
INVEST TIME IN FINDING THE TOPIC
Always the “big questions” of history.
A specific aspect of history to analyze.
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NHD THEME
BROAD TOPIC
What changed? How and why? What was the impact? What was its significance?
Research!!
INVEST TIME IN FINDING THE TOPIC
Always the “big questions” of history.
A specific aspect of history to analyze.
I love TV!
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BROAD TOPIC
Narrowed Topic
What changed? How and why? What was the impact? What was its significance?
Research!!
INVEST TIME IN FINDING THE TOPIC
2013 Theme is “Turning Points in History: People, Ideas, Events”
Always the “big questions” of history.
A specific aspect of history to analyze.
I love TV.
Hey, I didn’t know that Chicago was once famous for its television programs. Wow!
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BROAD TOPIC
Narrowed Topic
What changed? How and why? What was the impact? What was its significance?
Historical Question
Research!!
INVEST TIME IN FINDING THE TOPIC
NHD THEME
Always the “big questions” of history.
A specific aspect of history to analyze.
I love TV.
Hey, I didn’t know that Chicago was once famous for its television programs. Wow!
Did Chicago TV produce any turning points in history?
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BROAD TOPIC
Narrowed Topic
What changed? How and why? What was the impact? What was its significance?
Historical Question
Working Thesis
Research!!
INVEST RESEARCH TIME IN FINDING THE TOPIC
Always the “big questions” of history.
A specific aspect of history to analyze.
I love TV!
I didn’t know that Chicago was once famous for its television programs. Wow!
Did Chicago TV produce any turning points in history?
Chicago School of Television’s pioneering informal style broke down barriers between the audience and performers which represented a turning point that changed Americans’ relationship to television.
MAIN RESEARCH!
NHD THEME
Historical Question
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Once you’ve narrowed your topic, asked a historical question and done more research, you will be able to
write a “working” thesis.
• A thesis statement tells us in one or two sentences what you are going to argue for in your project. It is your answer to your historical question.
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A strong thesis:• Takes a stand -- makes a specific argument or
interpretation
• Has a narrow and specific focus
• Based on & can be supported with evidence
• Explains historical impact, significance, or change over time, and
• Can be communicated in one or two sentences.
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What are secondary sources?
Materials that give information, make an argument or offer interpretation based on primary sources.
Use secondary sources first to gather basic information on your topic - including the background and context.
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BOOKS or ARTICLES• by historians on a narrow
subject• by historians that
summarize or synthesize others’ works
• by writers summarizing historians
Encyclopedia & general reference books
Interviews with scholars, experts, museum docents, or others with second-hand knowledge
ALWAYS START
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What are Primary Sources?
Material made at the time - for the time, or persons who were witnesses or participants.
Primary sources are the “voices into the past” that make history come alive.
They are also the historian’s EVIDENCE.
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• Speeches• Letters• Photographs• Interviews• Diaries• Posters, flyers• Newspapers, serials• Minutes or reports,
government documents
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Photographs
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Newspapers, periodicals and serials (magazines)
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Flyers, posters, cartoons
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Reports, government documents, laws, trials, meeting minutes
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Also look for…
• Speeches • Interviews • Oral
Histories• Letters• Diaries
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Where can you find them?• libraries• archives• interviews• neighborhoods• organizations• historic sites• museums• Internet-online databases and
digital collections
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When you’re researching, organize what you are finding into six main areas:
• Description: who, what, when, where• Historical context• What happened: how and why• Causes or contributing factors• What changed and why: effects and impact • Significance
Your notes=the information you are finding but ALSO your analysis of that information
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Just like historians, you will need to submit an Annotated Bibliography with your project:
• A bibliography contains citations--the detailed publication information--about every source you used.
• An annotation is your summary of the source and explanation of how it was used in your project.
(You will attach your Annotated Bibliography to the Summary Statement Form to give to your judges.)
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Bibliographic Information may be either MLA or Turabian style. Be consistent.
The annotation summarizes the source and explains how it was used in project.
Primary and Secondary Sources should be separated.
Annotated Bibliography
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