100 Information Speech Topics on History

Information speech topics and public speaking tips on working out history topics for speeches or essay writing. Historical figures, events, periods and movements, and timelines are very good sources for authentic talks. Here are some models people very much like to hear a public speaker talking about: Different calendars in history. Rise and fall of Carthage. Celtic myths and legends. Hieroglyphs, the Rosetta Stone.

Inca and Maya civilisations.

The mummification process.

Medieval knighthood orders.

Pyramid construction theories.

Roman Empire ruled by senators.

The meaning of Stonehenge.

And what do you think of these famous periods and events? Research the following questions and the information speech topics will flow out of your pen while looking for answers:

1. What happened? When? How? Where?
2. What was the value or impact?
3. What are the major parts and facts?
4. Why was this age or period important?
5. Who played a major role?

Ancient Egypt Ancient Greece Ancient Rome Cold War Crusades Enlightenment French Revolution     Information Age Mesopotamia Kingdom

Middle Ages Modern Age Nuclear Age Prehistory Reformation Renaissance Romanticism Victorian Age Viking Age

How to research your information speech topics about historical people? Well, check this out in history books or on the net.

Another list of history speech topics for public speaker speeches and high school or college essay writing: famous historical figures and people. Tell their story, how they made the difference in their time:

Abraham Lincoln Adam Smith Albert Einstein Alexander Graham Bell     Alexander the Great Alfred Nobel Andy Warhol Archimedes Augustus Ayatollah Khomeini Benjamin Franklin Caligula Captain James Cook Charles de Gaulle Claude Monet Cleopatra Confucius David Livingstone Dwight Eisenhower Elizabeth I Erasmus Florence Nightingale Franklin D Roosevelt Galileo Galilei George Washington

Hannibal Harry S Truman Henry Kissinger Henry VIII Ho Chi Minh Imhotep Isaac Newton Jack the Ripper Jean-Jacques Rousseau     Joan of Arc John Adams John F Kennedy John Maynard Keynes Joseph Stalin Julius Caesar King Arthur King Tutankhamun Konrad Adenauer Leonardo da Vinci Louis Pasteur Mao Zedong Marco Polo Margaret Thatcher Marie Curie Martin Luther

Martin Luther King Mary, Queen of Scots Maximilien Robespierre Michelangelo Mohandas Gandhi Napoleon Bonaparte Nelson Mandela Nero Nicholas II Tsar of Russia Pablo Picasso Pol Pot Rameses the Great Rembrandt Richard Nixon Ronald Reagan Sigmund Freud Thomas Jefferson Tiberius Titus Vasco da Gama Vincent Van Gogh Vladimir Lenin William Shakespeare Winston Churchill Woodrow Wilson

Tip: Look for answers in history books on these simple questions, they lead you to a rough speech outline of the major information you could share with the group of spectators of the public speaking event. Each answer leads to new and focused information speech topics :-)

a. What is a good description of him or her? Nature, character?
b. What were his or her goals and destination?
c. What does the biographer say?
d. Did the historical figure belong to a movement or group?
e. What are the most important facts or achievements?
f. What are his or her values, theories or beliefs?
g. What do other people think of the figure? Controversial? Why?

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