Information Speech Topics:
100 History Topics

Information speech topics and public speaking tips on working out history topics for an informative speech or essay.



Historical figures, events, periods and movements, and timelines are very good sources for information speech topics. Here are some examples people very much like to hear a public speaker talking about:

1. Different year calendars in our history
2. The rise and fall of Carthage
3. Celtic myths and legends
4. Hieroglyphs - The story of the Rosetta Stone
5. The Inca and Maya civilisations
6. The mummification process
7. Famous orders of knighthood in the Middle Ages
8. The different theories about how the pyramids are build
9. How senators rule the Roman Empire
10. The meaning of Stonehenge

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?

Another list of information speech topics: famous historical figures and people. Tell their story, tell how they made the difference.

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

How to research your information speech topics about historical people? Well, check this out:

• What is a good description of him or her?
• What were his or her goals?
• What does the biographer say?
• Did the historical figure belong to a movement or group?
• What are the most important facts or achievements?
• What are his or her values, theories or beliefs?
• What do other people think of the figure? Controversial? Why?