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The History Guide: Finding a Topic
Basic research suggestions are given here to help you select a history research topic.
Steven Kreis, PhD
The History Guide: Gargantua and Pantagruel
This site is from a lecture in modern European intellectual history at The History Guide and gives a brief overview of Francois Rabelais along with an excerpt from his famous work, "Gargantua and Pantagruel."
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The History Guide: The Black Death: Satan Triumphants
This comprehensive lecture is about the Black Death and how it was perceived by the masses.
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The History Guide: Aristophanes
This page provides the full text of Aristophanes' play called "Clouds."
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The History Guide: Herodotus
This site provides a brief biography of Herodotus and a discussion of his writing of history.
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The History Guide: Thucydides
Provides a brief biography of Thucydides as an aristocrat and explains the reasons he wrote the history of the Peloponnesian War.
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The History Guide: The Athenian Origins of Direct Democracy
A lecture regarding the athenian origins of direct democracy.
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The History Guide: Greek Thought: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
A lecture on the great thinkers of Greece: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.
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The History Guide: Ancient Western Asia Mesopotamia
This history site offers a wonderful lecture on Mesopotamian civilizations and culture. Includes links within the lecture to in-depth explanations of important ideas and people such as Cuneiform and Hannibal.
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The History Guide: The Hundred Years' War Resources
Provides resources for information on the causes and important battles of the Hundred Years' War. You will also find an excellent bibliography.
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The History Guide: Giovanni Boccaccio's Life
This site from The History Guide provides an easy-to-read biography of Boccaccio. Mentions "The Decameron" and his influence on Chaucer.
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The History Guide: Vaclav Havel
This site from The History Guide provides a biographical history of Czech leader Vaclav Havel. Includes detailled account of Havel's role as a revolutionary playwright, and one of the founding members of the Civic Forum. Havel was...
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The History Guide: Twentieth Century Europe: Aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution
This site from The History Guide provides a selection from the Lectures on 20th century Europe. Discusses the impact of the Bolshevik revolution on Russia.
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The History Guide: The Medieval World View
An article regarding the history of the medieval world view.
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The History Guide: The Printing Press
The History Guide looks at the effect of the printing press on the economic improvements and spread of knowledge made possible by the printing press.
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The History Guide: Perestroika Defined (1987)
Perestroika, as defined by Mikhail Gorbachev. This excerpt includes the many definitions and applications of the concept of perestroika when used to describe the internal reforms of the Soviet Union that occurred during the 1980s.
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The History Guide: Stalin and the Cult of Personality
Two lectures that provide a perspective on the Soviet people's fixation and emotional bond to Stalin and the intellectual repression he enforced to bring that about.
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The History Guide: Medieval Society: The Three Orders
A lecture regarding the medieval society orders of those who work, those who fight and those who pray.
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The History Guide: Heretics, Heresies and the Church
A lecture on the medieval view of heretics, heresies and the church.
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The History Guide: Aquinas and Alighieri
A lecture on the medieval philosopher, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and writer Dante Alighieri.