George Santayana’s famous adage, “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” indicates an important link between history and problem-solving - the use of existing material and information about the past to create new solutions to contemporary problems. Here this aspect of applied history is articulated as “cyber-history” through analysis of historiography’s emergence in Ancient Greece, discussion of the contingencies of discursive research resulting in the spread of scholasticism in the Middle Ages, and ending with possibilities for cyber-history’s application to architecture curricula to rigorously fuse historical research, critical theory, and the projective work of the design studio. This introduction to cyber-history and heuretics is followed by a case-study analysis of Le Corbusier’s urban works.