HIST 4000 - HIST 4001 History Honors (Spring 2025)

How do to a search

1. Go to the Cornell library catalog
2. Use the "advanced search." 
3. "Add a row" to get three search boxes.  Note the settings of the pull down menus to the right of the search boxes:
    

You should get about 80 hits. Not all of them are what you’re looking for.

• Use the "publication year" to the left of the results and and set it for 1949-1970:

Then you’ll get the older titles that are about 100 pages, a kind of “pamphlet” like the ones listed in the sidebar on this page.

Titles (many of which may be shelved at Uris Library Reserves):

• The rise of Rome: how to explain it
• Decline and fall of the Roman Empire: why did it collapse?
• Town origins; the evidence from medieval England
• The Holy Roman Empire in the Middle Ages
• The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
• The Turner thesis concerning the role of the frontier in American history
• The causes of the American Revolution
• Hamilton and the national debt
• Puritanism in early America
• Reconstruction in the South
• Slavery as a cause of the Civil War
• Evolution and religion
• Lincoln and the coming of the Civil War
• Reconstruction and the race problem
• The economic origins of the French revolution
• 1848, a turning point?
• The origins of the English Civil War
• The Russian Revolution and Bolshevik victory, why and how?
• The causes of the American Civil War
• The "new imperialism"
• 1857 in India
• American neutrality and the Spanish Civil War
• The Chinese civil service
• The eighteenth-century revolution
• The Revolution of 1688
• The War of 1812
• The Gregorian epoch: reformation, revolution, reaction?
• The influence of the enlightenment on the French Revolution: creative, disastrous, or non-existent?
• The fall of France, 1940
• Imperial Russia after 1861
• The Kuomintang debacle of 1949
• The pattern of Chinese history: cycles, development, or stagnation?
• The expansion of Europe
• The French wars of religion
• The meaning of the Mexican Revolution
• The Spanish Civil War
• Henry VIII and the English Reformation
• The rise of modern science
• The robber barons revisited
• American intervention in the Russian Civil War
• Change in Sung China
• The great reform bill of 1821: liberal or conservative?
• Napoleon; historical enigma
• Lenin: dedicated Marxist, or, revolutionary pragmatist?