2007-2008 Topics for Modern World History Research Papers

1. Architecture from the Middle Ages to the Period of Rococo
2. Muhammad and Allah
3. Religion and secularism during the Renaissance
4. The Catholic Inquisition
5. The Protestant Reformation
6. The Tudor influence in the history of England
7. Bach and polyphonic music
8. Zheng He and European exploration
9. The arts of the Renaissance and Baroque periods
10. The “Protestant ethic” and Luther’s theology of “ On the Bondage of the Will”
11. Louis XIV and the French Revolution of 1789
12. Mercantilism and Imperialism
13. John Locke and American government
14. The Scientific Method and the Industrial Revolution
15. The Age of Enlightenment and the social sciences
16. Hegel, Marx and Darwin
17. The Congress of Vienna and Otto von Bismarck
18. Napoleon and Wellington
19. The Grimm Brothers and Romanticism
20. Napoleon and the French Revolution of 1789
21. The Industrial Revolution and Communism
22. The Enlightenment and Romanticism
23. Music during the Classical and Romantic movements in Western Europe
24. The Declaration of Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863
25. Bismarck and the First World War
26. Prussia and the Third Reich
27. Robespierre’s “Reign of Terror” and European Socialism
28.  The Weimar Republic and World War II
29. Capitalism and Franklin D. Roosevelt
30. Communism and Joseph Stalin
31. The Truman Doctrine and the Brezhnev Doctrine
32. The Berlin Wall and the fall of the Soviet Union
33. The Vietnam War and the war in Iraq