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Presenting your work

Mary vincent writes:.

Historians in our own field or subfield are in some ways the least intimidating audience. They understand and appreciate the detail and subtle debates you are engaging with and will need far less in the way of context or introduction. But such audiences are rare. Even at an academic conference you are likely to be speaking to people with different specialist interests, whether of period, place or theme.  Making what you are saying accessible and intelligible is key.

Preparing and presenting a seminar paper

There is a lot of advice available on the internet; some of it is extremely detailed and not all of it is good.  UK and US university websites are a reliable source of sensible advice but this can be prescriptive, and not all of it will work for you.   READ MORE

Preparing and presenting a conference paper

Conference papers are shorter than seminar papers—commonly twenty minutes—and run more tightly to time.  You will present as part of a panel, and you should determine the kind of audience you are speaking to—whether specialist or general, historical or interdisciplinary—and be clear as to how long you have to speak. READ MORE

Intervening in academic discussion

Questions after a seminar or conference paper provide an important opportunity to participate in academic debate.  This can be nerve-racking.  Some university cultures have a robust style of questioning, which can lead to a critique, for example from the panel chair, to which you are expected to reply. In others, questions are much longer than the repartee style of question and answer than is common in Britain.  Try to find out as much as you can in advance about what to expect. READ MORE

What happens in a viva?

A PhD viva is a unique opportunity to discuss your research with two experts. They will have read every word of your thesis and all their attention will be on you and your work.  Though any examination is nerve-racking, you should try to enjoy the viva; this detailed, thoughtful consideration of your work doesn’t happen very often. READ MORE

Further information can be found at these useful websites:

• http://www.cgu.edu/pages/864.asp
• http://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/may-2008/conference-rules-everything-you-need-to-know-about-presenting-a-scholarly-paper-in-public

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Presenting Conference Papers and Posters in the Humanities

Prepared by david forrest teaching, learning, and professional development center.

This paper is intended to describe the process of presenting research at conferences and provide useful advice for developing quality presentation materials.  Although primarily directed at the new researcher, experienced scholars will also find some useful tips for improving their presentations.  Be sure and check out the annotated list of online resources at the bottom of the page.

Introduction

Research conferences are the life-blood of academia.  Scholars from around the country converge to exchange ideas, comment on each others' research, and find out what others in the field are studying.  By participating in these conferences, students and professors can stake their research territory, network with others in similar subfields, and participate in the community of scholars.  Two of the most popular methods of sharing research are paper presentations and poster presentations.  Presenting papers and posters is an invaluable way to develop and prepare ideas for publication.  The success of your conference participation depends on both the quality of your research and quality of your presentation.  Many quality projects have suffered from poor presentation.  The consequence of poor presentation is a lack of recognition and a lack of feedback from colleagues and experts in the field.  Conversely, the better your presentation the more valuable feedback you will likely receive.  Below are some suggestions and resources for preparing an effective presentation of your research.

Presenting Papers

Logistics Conferences program committees will typically send out a call for proposals a few months ahead of the conference.  The call will request an abstract or proposal, typically 200-500 words in length.  The committee will then select the best proposals and put the program together.  While individual conferences will vary, a typical paper session allows presenters 15-25 minutes to lecture on their research project and then field questions from the audience.  Often, presenters will be grouped by paper topic into a session.  The session chair will introduce each presenter and facilitate audience questions.

Talk to colleagues and mentors to find a conference that matches your interests.  Also enlist their help when writing your proposal or abstract.  For more advice on finding a conference and writing a solid abstract, see The Art of the Conference Paper .

Suggestions A good practice for preparing for a presentation is to (1) write the research paper (10-20 pages), then (2) translate the paper into speech-appropriate language.  Writing out the document insures that you completely explore the topic and have a well-constructed argument.  It also gives you practice preparing for publication; and sometimes a session chair will want to read your paper ahead of the conference to prepare some questions of his/her own.  However, most research papers make poor speech scripts so it is important to translate your paper into language that communicates well orally.  Consider your audience; reading an article silently is very different than listening to a presentation.  A reader can skip ahead or re-read a section of prose that was dense or unclear.  An oral presentation happens in real time.  The same sentence might be clear for a written document but difficult to follow when spoken aloud.  Dense jargon, lengthy quotations, and long, complicated sentences can lose your audience.  In her article, Conference Rules , Linda Kerber's “Rule No. 2” gives some very helpful advice on this translation process: “Although a sentence linked by semicolons, or constructed with one or more dependent clauses, may be perfectly clear on paper, it is very hard to understand when it floats into the air. The listener cannot hang on to the subject until the object heaves into view three clauses later.”  Also see Presenting Conference Papers in the Humanities for more detailed tips on how to prepare the speech of your presentation.

To help communicate your lecture, consider using presentation software such as PowerPoint or Keynote.  Before you decide to use technology of any kind, be sure and check with the conference organizers to know what technology will be available in your presentation room.  For helpful tips on designing a quality slide show, as well as avoiding some technological pitfalls, see the TLTC's How can I use PowerPoint more effectively?

The best advice when preparing your presentation is to practice, practice, practice.  Practice out loud, practice alone, for your friends, family, and colleagues, for anyone who will listen; and ask your practice audiences for feedback.  Practicing will help insure that you stay within your time limits, are comfortable communicating orally, and that you are communicating clearly.  In a well-designed presentation, even a novice in the discipline should be able to follow the gist of your argument.  Ask a mentor or colleague to help you anticipate what questions people may ask about your paper.  This will help you formulate some good responses and avoid getting stuck. 

Finally, check with the societies and organizations within your discipline for field-specific advice.  For example the American Historical Association features a very useful paper on their website that describes the experience from the point of view of historians.

Presenting Posters

Poster sessions are very common in STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), and their popularity is growing in the Humanities.  Poster sessions allow conferences to host a larger pool of researchers.  This is especially valuable for young researchers because it provides more opportunities for students to present their work.  Conference attendees also have the flexibility to browse the research that interests them most.

Logistics In a typical poster session, posters are displayed in a large room and, at an assigned time, presenters stand next to their posters to explain their project to passersby.  Conference attendees browse the posters to find topics of interest.  It is up to the presenter to communicate the project clearly and in a way that will elicit good feedback; so prepare your comments ahead of time as well as some notes to refer to if you need specific information.  As with the paper presentation, ask a mentor or colleague to help you anticipate what questions people may ask.  It's best to engage people actively as they approach your poster.  Be friendly and open to criticism and remember, you want people to comment – getting feedback on your ideas is one of the purposes of being there.  Be prepared with some paper for taking notes in case someone shares a useful idea or resource.

Poster Design The poster should play a supporting role to your explanation of the project.  At the same time, it needs to be complete enough to allow people to learn about your project if you are unavailable when they walk by.  According to Elliott Moreton , a poster has three purposes:  “To illustrate your explanation to the hearer when you are there…to explain your work to the reader when you are not there…[and] to make people want to read your paper.” (p.1)  Keep these purposes in mind as you design your poster.

Just like with paper presentations, your written document will need some translation in order to make an effective poster.  Inserting your 20-page written document into a poster-size sheet of paper will not communicate well.  Posters are a form of visual communication so you should adjust your information delivery accordingly.  Consider other forms of visual communication – billboards, print ads, television commercials.  These examples use rich images and very little text.  Charts, graphs, diagrams, photographs and other images can communicate your topic, data, and results more effectively than a large amount of text. 

As Hess, Tosney and Liegel suggest , your poster should focus on one take-away point.  There isn't room to include all of your findings and details, so don't try.  Give your listener a clear presentation of your central idea.  You will be there to expound on issues they find interesting or unclear.  Have something physical to pass out – a handout or business card – with your email address or other contact information so that interested parties can contact you later.

Titling your poster

The title should be at the top of the poster and should be the largest text on the poster (72-point or larger).  A good title should clearly and concisely describe the project.  For example, here are two possible titles for an analysis of the music of American composer, Aaron Copland.

Title Option 1: A Neo-Schenkerian Approach to Structural, Formal, and Prolongational Issues in Aaron Copland's Post-Tonal Juvenilia. 

Title Option 2: How Tonal is Copland's Music?

Option 1 might be acceptable as an article title but would be ineffective as a poster title.  It is too long and includes a weighty amount of jargon that doesn't communicate well to the passerby.  The second option, set in large font at the top of a poster, will be more effective at getting people's attention and quickly communicating the aims of the research.  Once a passerby shows interest, then you can expound on the central idea with more detail.

Click here to see a wide variety of actual posters courtesy of the Graduate School at the University of North Carolina.

Anatomy of a Research Poster

Check with the conference guidelines for specific expectations and limitations.  The title and author(s) go at the top.  Otherwise you have a great deal of freedom to choose what elements best represent your work as well as how to arrange them.  In general, the body of most posters will have the following elements:

Abstract The abstract of your study should summarize your research.  The abstract should (1) describe the problem that prompted your research, (2) explain your approach to the problem, and (3) outline of the scope of your project.  Your thesis statement should be easy to find in a well-constructed abstract. 

It is common to put the abstract in a prominent place (top center or top left, under the title and authors) so that passersby can get a quick understanding of your project, particularly if you are in conversation with another conference attendee when they arrive.  Therefore your abstract should be brief, engaging, and to the point.  While specific conferences and disciplines will have their own criteria, abstracts are typically between 200 and 500 words.  Make sure that your font size is large enough to be read easily from a few feet away.  The TLTC recommends a font size of 24-30-point for body text.  Remember the point of a poster is not to give the entire research paper but rather to get people's attention and engage them in conversation.  Brevity is key.

Conclusion The conclusion is where you summarize your findings and analysis. A well-formed conclusion should explain how your study contributes to existing research.  You should explain the significance and limitations of the present study as well as suggest avenues for future study. Be sure to make the connection between your data and your conclusion(s) very transparent.  While you will be there to explain your work, there will be some readers who will want to read on their own or while you are not around.  Your text should speak for itself.  At the same time, as with all other sections of text on your poster, less is more.   

Visual data In a visual medium like posters, charts, photos, and diagrams can effectively grab attention and quickly describe the scope, data, and conclusions of your study.  Be sure and include short descriptions of your images so that readers will know exactly how each image relates to the study.  Images should do more than decorate the poster; they should explain and enrich your message.

References Be sure and credit outside sources appropriately.  Not only is this standard academic practice, it is quite possible that one of your sources may be at the conference and read your poster!

Your contact information An email address at the bottom of your poster will allow people to send you comments and ideas even if you aren't there when they walk by.

Make sure every item on the poster relates directly to your one, central point – no distractions allowed.  For specific advice including font choice and tips for interacting with PowerPoint see the TLTC Poster Printing Policies and Design Tips.

Be prepared to spend a good deal of time on the presentation aspect of your work.  Careful preparation of your materials will dramatically improve how your work is received.  For more advice, check out the online resources below.  Good luck!

Texas Tech Resources

The Center for Undergraduate Research (CUR) CUR assists with skills training and research funding and provides one-on-one mentoring to undergraduate students in all phases of the research process.

How Can I Use PowerPoint More Effectively? TLPDC white paper on designing a slide show to accompany a lecture or paper presentation.  Includes tips for avoiding technological disaster.

TLPDC Poster Design Tips Includes specific advice including font choice and tips for interacting with PowerPoint.

Texas Tech PowerPoint Templates Downloadable, free-use PowerPoint templates compliant with Texas Tech presentation policies and preloaded with Texas Tech images including the official seal and “Double T”.

• Works Cited and Other Online Resources

Angelini, A. 2010. The Art of the Conference Paper. Inside Higher Ed. http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2010/11/03/angelini , visited June 2011. A graduate student reflects on lessons learned at a recent conference.  Gives pragmatic, bulleted advice for finding the right conference, writing a strong abstract, writing the paper, and preparing and delivering the presentation.

• Claremont Graduate University Writing Center. 2011. Presenting Conference Papers in the Humanities.

http://www.cgu.edu/pages/864.asp , visited June 2011 Some helpful tips for translating your written paper into an oral presentation.

• Hess, G.R., K. Tosney, and L. Liegel. 2010. Creating Effective Poster Presentations.

http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters , visited June 2011. A comprehensive site that describes all aspects of poster design from developing your idea, writing your abstract, and designing and presenting the poster.  Includes a discussion of software options and examples of good posters.

• Kerber, L.K. 2008. Conference Rules: Everything You Need to Know about Presenting a Scholarly Paper in Public. American Historical Association.

http://www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/2008/0805/0805pro1.cfm , visited June 2011. Previously published in the Chronicle of Higher Education (March 21, 2008) and Perspectives on History (2008), this paper gives seven “rules” for using anxiety as an asset when presenting scholarly work.

• Moreton, E. 2003. Posters. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

http://www.unc.edu/~moreton/Materials/Posters.pdf , visited June 2011. Good, concise advice on designing a poster and preparing for the day of presentation.  The section on poster construction is a little out of date (Moreton describes using 11”x17” sheets rather than designing with presentation software).

• Stanford University. Poster Design Guidelines and Resources for Undergraduate Research. http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/cgi-bin/drupal_ual/OO_research_opps_SURPSResources.html , visited June 2011.

Designed for Stanford's Symposium of Undergraduate Research and Public Service (SURPS), this site offers a range of advice on posters including Steps for Composing an Effective Poster and Tips for Posters in the Humanities .

• University of North Carolina Graduate School. Poster and Presentation Resources.

http://gradschool.unc.edu/student/postertips.html , visited June 2011. An impressive metapage with links to advice on presenting , using PowerPoint with a paper presentation , poster design advice , poster design software , templates , and a nice selection of example posters .  Links connect to a wide range of universities, corporations such as Microsoft, and government sites.

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How to Give a Twenty Minute Oral Presentation

Getting organized….

• Organize your major points on a page or a page and a half of paper.
• Type all quotations (or xerox them) on separate pieces of paper so you can find them at the appropriate time.
• Prepare a transparency or multiple copies for the class if you have special maps, a chronology, technical terms, or illustrations that everyone should see.

When you begin…

• Start out with a strong, clear thesis of what your presentation is all about.
• Make sure you have a limited number of major points which you stress, and illustrate.
• Have a sense of how long you will take by practicing before a mirror or an available roommate.

As you start to write…

• Remember that you will know more than you put down on paper. Try for a limit of ten pages (which is more difficult than fifty!).
• Begin with a substantive statement of the topic/problem you are dealing with.
• End with a summary, with questions that are left unanswered, with a new thought that you would like to pursue. The end of your paper should be as strong and interesting as the beginning.
• Use standard footnote procedures. Jacques Barzun and Henry Graffís The Modern Researcher or Kate Turabianís Manual will serve as references. You may use anthropological style (Author, year of publication: page number) if you organize your bibliography properly: Author. Year. Title. Place of Publication: Publisher.
• Footnotes and bibliography may be at the end; however, footnotes that explain something in the text should be at the bottom of that page. So, if the major notes are at the end, and something in the text needs explaining, use a symbol in the text, * for instance, and place the explanation at the bottom of the page.
• Proofread. No “A” paper can be sloppy, full of typos and misspellings.

– Eleanor Zelliot

See also: How to Lead a Class Discussion

And Monsters

History presentation.

History Paper Presentation Assignment

For the History Presentation assignment, you will pick a discrete, concrete and historically locatable object  (person, place, event, or thing) from the novel assigned to your group.  You will then conduct outside research on the history of object.

The purpose of the research is to contextualize the cultural and material effects of this object in order  to enrich our understanding of why or to what effect the author chose to include it in the narrative (as opposed to some other object).

The goal of the assignment is twofold: 1) The assignment should help you complete your Monster Paper assignment in which you will use this research to help you engage in a deeper close reading analysis of how the author’s presentation of a particular object affects our understanding of what’s at stake in the text.

The History Presentation will focus on providing a compelling contextually relevant history of the object, it will end with a conclusion that suggests how that historical knowledge might affect the way we understand the novel. In this way the conclusion of The History Presentation assignment can be a starting point for The Monster Paper assignment, and much of the research needed for The Monster Paper should be included in The History Presentation.

2) Your History Paper Presentation should crafted in a manner that will allow you to communicate the material clearly and out loud to your classmates (with some accompanying visual aid). In this way the presentation of your History Paper will allow you to share the labors of your research with your classmate.

Presentation: Every the History Presentation should be accompanied with some form of visual and/or phonic aid (i.e. a movie clip, a PowerPoint, a photograph, a handout, a song recording, etc.).  Your presentation should be around 7-8 minutes long.  I will try to give you a 1-minute warning. I will also try not to cut you off, but if it goes too long I will have to so.  I have to make sure we have time for discussion and that all the other presenters can present.  You can either read your paper as it is or you can talk from notes or an outline.

Formatting: This paper should be 3 pages, double spaced, 1-inch margins and 12 point Times New Roman font with page numbers and your whole name listed in the footer. While there is some degree of flexibility, I imagine that you would spend roughly 2.5 pages on the history and the final half suggesting how that history might changes the way we read a specific part of the novel and then consequently the novel as a whole.

Grading Rubrics

Is the object you chose to focus on clear, discrete, concrete, and historically locatable object from the novel assigned to your group?  Is your research on this object focused to the most historically likely time and place to influence the way the author, the characters, the readers, or any combination of the three experienced the object?  Do you use at least three, distinct reliable sources?  Do you have clear and accurate citations?

Relaying the History

Does the way you order and present information about this object seem cogent?  Have you made thoughtful choices about the scope and manner in which you present the history? Is there a central organizing point for your history?  [Meaning you may not have a fully worked out thesis for The Monster Paper, but you should have some sense of the neighborhood you want us to focus on.  Here I’m looking to see when you talk about the history of stray animals in Lorain, OH are you highlighting a particular theme (the way the community saw the animals and the rescue organizations as an annoyance or the way funds were in competition with human welfare associations).  I want to see you preparing us to appreciate some particular aspect of the history.] Do you explicitly suggest the questions and/or ideas this history raises in our understanding of the novel?

  Presentation

Do you communicate your paper well orally for an audience?  [One way to satisfy this aspect is to write your paper in a manner that allows you to read it out loud word for word.  Another way is to write your paper as you normally write a paper, but then to make sure before the presentation, you have highlighted the parts you can read directly, and made notes where you need to speak directly to the audience in your own non-written speech.  Does your presentation include some form of visual and/or phonic aid (a flyer, a PowerPoint, a video clip, etc.)? Does your visual and/or phonic aid relevant and complementary to your paper presentation?  Is your presentation within the allotted time limit?

Grammar & Style

To be clear, you will turn in a paper, but I am largely grading you based on the presentation.  What I will be looking for in terms of grammar and style then is whether or not your spelling is correct, your thoughts are clear, your language is clean, and your citations are accurately formatted.

Faces of History: Peace, Process, and Play!

The following post was written by Laura vanHofwegen, a Classical Conversations Support Representative, about her and her son’s experience with Faces of History.

Faces of History: What is It?

Faces of History, a research paper and presentation, is a pinnacle assignment culminating each year of our Essentials program. Choosing a historical character to research, the student writes a five-paragraph research paper after selecting sources, exploring topics, and practicing their writing skills developed over the course of the academic year. Students plan costuming and prepare oral presentations based on these papers, often speaking from first-person perspectives. Finally, families gather together in community and celebrate these presentations together as the capstone event of the Essentials year.

Peace Over Panic

“…But don’t you step on my blue suede shoes,” blared out of a portable speaker on a makeshift stage while a jumpsuit-clad figure, tapping his foot and glancing over the top of his over-sized reflective sunglasses, brushed a coiffed hank of black synthetic hair from his forehead.

Insecure about such presentations and initially dreading the day, my second son came alive that afternoon, not as himself, but as Elvis Presley. To the audience, Elvis himself recited three minutes of first-person testimony. To me, my precious 10-year-old boy brought his best. And the previous four weeks of diligent — sometimes painful — effort flashed through my mind.

In March, there was fear and panic. How could my timid boy succeed? By April, there was rest.  How did we come to a place of peace? Looking back, I am now reminded of a beautiful quote from Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women , “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” Learning to proceed in peace (not panic) took deliberate thought. Clear instruction, an opportunity for practice, and measurable expectations early on helped us to ease my son’s fears. The Faces of History project is not to be missed, for storms like these are weathered by practicing the process — learning to sail our ships.

Process Over Product

In Teaching Writing: Structure and Style, Andrew Pudewa, founder of the Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW) , comments, “Teaching a skill is more about process, less about product.”

But wait — isn’t the Faces of History project all about the final product? The final presentation? Recently, I asked my same son, now four years older, to remember that first Faces of History project.  Interestingly, instead of recalling the presentation itself, he mentioned, “Boy, it was a challenge to find good research sources, but I sure did love fusing those outlines!” He continued reflecting on some of the key skills he had practiced during the multi-week assignment, including not only choosing sources and penning outlines, but also composing, editing, and adapting the research paper into a first-person oral presentation… completely memorized!

I internally cheered. Yes! These steps and skills are developed over the course of the entire academic year — indeed, over the course of the three years a student typically spends in the Essentials program. Diligent, intentional commitment to the steps, cycle after cycle, leads to mastery and confidence.

My son, now in the Challenge program, continues to use these skills on a weekly basis. We might hardly remember the final Elvis presentation today, but there is tremendous and lasting value in faithfulness to the process as there is tremendous and lasting value in learning to sail our ships.

Play Over Perfection

Children like to do what they know how to do. Decide with your student: Where are we aiming our ladder? Are we aiming for the “perfect” presentation or are we committing to the enjoyment of a process? To gaining skills adeptly? To practicing perseverance along with pleasure?

Children effectively learn through play without the expectation of perfection. Modeling this big-project progression one small rung at a time makes a large assignment manageable, and we as parents can rest and enjoy the process when the focus is on experiencing the project parts for what they are and, more importantly, the souls of our children for what they are.

According to Dictionary.com , the origin of the verb “to play” comes from an Old English word meaning, in part, “to leap for joy, rejoice.” One joy of this project is that it doesn’t have to be so serious. We ditched the expectation of perfection and instead applied some creativity while continuing to work within the established framework. My boy’s Elvis presentation was far from perfect but viewing this project as play leading up to it was priceless. We slowed down, rejoiced in the small victories along the way, and loved our son. We celebrated then, and we celebrated the next year while repeating the process again (Poseidon!) and again (Shakespeare!) during his final Essentials tour.

Faces of History: A Project Worth the Investment

Parents, your investment in the skills gained by stepping deliberately through this multi-week, multi-step assignment is not in vain. At the culmination of Faces of History, ask yourself: Is my student the same person he was when we began? Am I? Look ahead with expectancy and relish the gift we grasp by walking alongside our children through character-developing assignments like Faces of History. Rest in peace, utilize the process, and incorporate play.

My timid boy was not afraid in the end; he was and is learning to sail his ship. I knew it was so when he clomped off the stage in his blue suede (spray-painted) shoes and his curled lip uttered assuredly, “Thank you, thank you very much!”

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Cool History Topics: 151 Great Historical Events & Ideas

History is one of the most fascinating and influential fields of study. It’s not merely a narration of the events of the past but a constant search for answers. It’s a re-examination of our human experience and understanding of how far we have come.

There are thousands of interesting history topics that a student can write an essay about. From ancient tribes to the modern world issues, there are plenty of things to explore. However, you might still find it challenging to work on your history project, presentation, or research paper.

There are a few reasons why:

First of all, there are too many choices to pick one. Secondly, when it comes to history, saying something new and genuinely original is tough. A lot of people try to find a research topic that will be fun to write about. You can feel as if all the ideas were already examined.

This is why our team has come together to provide you with this list of cool history topics to write about. Find some unique and fresh ideas on our page!

For some students, picking a popular topic in history is not enough. They want something unique and cool. If you are one of these students, this list can give you some fresh ideas on cool history topics to write about.

• ✨ Top Interesting Topics
• 😎 What Idea is Cool?
• 🥇 Important Events
• 📌 10 Cool Events
• ✨ Popular Topics
• 💡 American History
• 🌍 World History
• 🏺 Ancient History

✨ 15 Interesting History Topics

• World Wonders.
• Chernobyl Disaster.
• Ancient Egypt.
• The Cold War.
• The Red Scare.
• The Holocaust.
• Edo Period.
• Famous Italian Painters.
• The Civil War.
• The 20 th Century.
• Thirty Years’ War.
• South African Apartheid.
• Modern World History.
• Eiffel Tower.
• The Great Depression.

😎 What Is a Cool History Topic?

You may still wonder whether the topic you chose to talk about is cool enough. Well, you can ask people around you to determine. Don’t settle for a random history topic. Make sure it is worth your time.

Talk to your friends, your family, and people you know. Question them about the most important event in world history. It is a good topic to talk about with your friends and learn about exciting events in history. Another great option would be looking up free college essays collected in a samples database. They usually cover a variety of topics and include numerous paper types.

If you don’t have time, this list will give you ideas about some cool history topics to write about. Consider the options, pick the most engaging one, and start your paper.

🥇 Most Important Historical Events

Selecting one of the events that changed the world is a daunting task for anyone. You might ask, with everything that has happened in the past 5000 years, how can you choose what was the most important?

Here is our list of the most important historical events ever:

• Alexander the Great: the political and cultural impact of Alexander the Great’s Conquest . Alexander the Great was one of the most influential kings of the ancient world. In the essay about his political and cultural impact, talk about his military campaigns. How did he, by the age of 30, create one of the biggest Empires in the world? Allow the readers to see how big and powerful the empire was. Elaborate on the legacy that Alexander the Great left after his death.
• The Factors that contributed to the dissolution of the Roman Empire . Historians agree on several factors that contributed to it. At the beginning of the essay, identify them. You can also decide to focus on several factors that seem the most important.
• Islam and Christianity Impact on the Middle Ages
• Nudity in the paintings of the Italian Renaissance
• Leonardo Da Vinci: Artist, Scientist, Inventor . An essay about this person is destined to be intriguing. Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the most captivating figures in the history of humankind. Just imagine: he was an artist, a scientist, and an inventor at the same time. You can pick several most important paintings to talk about. How about The Mona Lisa or The Last Supper?
• Could World War II be prevented?
• How will historians remember the 2010s?
• Heroes after the Middle Ages
• Impact of the Black Death: the greatest population disaster
• American family’s changes since the 20th century
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• Alexander the Great’s Reign
• Fall of the Ancient Roman Empire. The fall of the Ancient Roman Empire, without any doubt, is one of the most important historical topics. Explore how gradual the process of decline was. Discuss the military, political, and financial reasons for the fall.
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• Religion in Ancient Greece
• The government organization of Ancient Rome
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• History of Athenian democracy
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What is a thesis statement.

Your thesis statement is one of the most important parts of your paper.  It expresses your main argument succinctly and explains why your argument is historically significant.  Think of your thesis as a promise you make to your reader about what your paper will argue.  Then, spend the rest of your paper–each body paragraph–fulfilling that promise.

Your thesis should be between one and three sentences long and is placed at the end of your introduction.  Just because the thesis comes towards the beginning of your paper does not mean you can write it first and then forget about it.  View your thesis as a work in progress while you write your paper.  Once you are satisfied with the overall argument your paper makes, go back to your thesis and see if it captures what you have argued.  If it does not, then revise it.  Crafting a good thesis is one of the most challenging parts of the writing process, so do not expect to perfect it on the first few tries.  Successful writers revise their thesis statements again and again.

A successful thesis statement:

• makes an historical argument
• takes a position that requires defending
• is historically specific
• is focused and precise
• answers the question, “so what?”

How to write a thesis statement:

Suppose you are taking an early American history class and your professor has distributed the following essay prompt:

“Historians have debated the American Revolution’s effect on women.  Some argue that the Revolution had a positive effect because it increased women’s authority in the family.  Others argue that it had a negative effect because it excluded women from politics.  Still others argue that the Revolution changed very little for women, as they remained ensconced in the home.  Write a paper in which you pose your own answer to the question of whether the American Revolution had a positive, negative, or limited effect on women.”

Using this prompt, we will look at both weak and strong thesis statements to see how successful thesis statements work.

While this thesis does take a position, it is problematic because it simply restates the prompt.  It needs to be more specific about how  the Revolution had a limited effect on women and  why it mattered that women remained in the home.

Revised Thesis:  The Revolution wrought little political change in the lives of women because they did not gain the right to vote or run for office.  Instead, women remained firmly in the home, just as they had before the war, making their day-to-day lives look much the same.

This revision is an improvement over the first attempt because it states what standards the writer is using to measure change (the right to vote and run for office) and it shows why women remaining in the home serves as evidence of limited change (because their day-to-day lives looked the same before and after the war).  However, it still relies too heavily on the information given in the prompt, simply saying that women remained in the home.  It needs to make an argument about some element of the war’s limited effect on women.  This thesis requires further revision.

Strong Thesis: While the Revolution presented women unprecedented opportunities to participate in protest movements and manage their family’s farms and businesses, it ultimately did not offer lasting political change, excluding women from the right to vote and serve in office.

Few would argue with the idea that war brings upheaval.  Your thesis needs to be debatable:  it needs to make a claim against which someone could argue.  Your job throughout the paper is to provide evidence in support of your own case.  Here is a revised version:

Strong Thesis: The Revolution caused particular upheaval in the lives of women.  With men away at war, women took on full responsibility for running households, farms, and businesses.  As a result of their increased involvement during the war, many women were reluctant to give up their new-found responsibilities after the fighting ended.

Sexism is a vague word that can mean different things in different times and places.  In order to answer the question and make a compelling argument, this thesis needs to explain exactly what  attitudes toward women were in early America, and  how those attitudes negatively affected women in the Revolutionary period.

Strong Thesis: The Revolution had a negative impact on women because of the belief that women lacked the rational faculties of men. In a nation that was to be guided by reasonable republican citizens, women were imagined to have no place in politics and were thus firmly relegated to the home.

This thesis addresses too large of a topic for an undergraduate paper.  The terms “social,” “political,” and “economic” are too broad and vague for the writer to analyze them thoroughly in a limited number of pages.  The thesis might focus on one of those concepts, or it might narrow the emphasis to some specific features of social, political, and economic change.

Strong Thesis: The Revolution paved the way for important political changes for women.  As “Republican Mothers,” women contributed to the polity by raising future citizens and nurturing virtuous husbands.  Consequently, women played a far more important role in the new nation’s politics than they had under British rule.

This thesis is off to a strong start, but it needs to go one step further by telling the reader why changes in these three areas mattered.  How did the lives of women improve because of developments in education, law, and economics?  What were women able to do with these advantages?  Obviously the rest of the paper will answer these questions, but the thesis statement needs to give some indication of why these particular changes mattered.

Strong Thesis: The Revolution had a positive impact on women because it ushered in improvements in female education, legal standing, and economic opportunity.  Progress in these three areas gave women the tools they needed to carve out lives beyond the home, laying the foundation for the cohesive feminist movement that would emerge in the mid-nineteenth century.

Thesis Checklist

When revising your thesis, check it against the following guidelines:

• Does my thesis make an historical argument?
• Does my thesis take a position that requires defending?
• Is my thesis historically specific?
• Is my thesis focused and precise?
• Does my thesis answer the question, “so what?”

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