While dining with an erstwhile colleague last evening, our talk turned to Robert Caro and whether or not he is a proponent of the Great Man Theory of History. We agreed that he is not, if you’re interested.
This Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Great Man Theory of History does a nice job of explaining this philosophy of history. It is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three sentences and three comprehension questions. Even with that brevity, this worksheet explains Thomas Carlyle’s conception of this method of interpreting history and the fact that Carlyle’s “…theories have generally fallen out of fashion.”
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