This guide will assist you in developing your research topic and subsequent paper for HIST 1955: History Capstone or if you are working in the area of current European History (eighteenth century to the present). It will also provide you with links to helpful sites and people.
According to the Pitt-Greensburg program sheet for history, this discipline "is concerned with the broad range of experiences, events, and decisions which have taken place in the past and which have shaped our current world."