2007-2008 Topics for Modern World History Research Papers
- Architecture from the Middle Ages to the Period of Rococo
- Muhammad and Allah
- Religion and secularism during the Renaissance
- The Catholic Inquisition
- The Protestant Reformation
- The Tudor influence in the history of England
- Bach and polyphonic music
- Zheng He and European exploration
- The arts of the Renaissance and Baroque periods
- The “Protestant ethic” and Luther’s theology of “ On the Bondage of the Will”
- Louis XIV and the French Revolution of 1789
- Mercantilism and Imperialism
- John Locke and American government
- The Scientific Method and the Industrial Revolution
- The Age of Enlightenment and the social sciences
- Hegel, Marx and Darwin
- The Congress of Vienna and Otto von Bismarck
- Napoleon and Wellington
- The Grimm Brothers and Romanticism
- Napoleon and the French Revolution of 1789
- The Industrial Revolution and Communism
- The Enlightenment and Romanticism
- Music during the Classical and Romantic movements in Western Europe
- The Declaration of Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863
- Bismarck and the First World War
- Prussia and the Third Reich
- Robespierre’s “Reign of Terror” and European Socialism
- The Weimar Republic and World War II
- Capitalism and Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Communism and Joseph Stalin
- The Truman Doctrine and the Brezhnev Doctrine
- The Berlin Wall and the fall of the Soviet Union
- The Vietnam War and the war in Iraq