From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to modern history:

The modern era or the modern period, also known as modern history or modern times, is the period of human history that succeeds the post-classical era (also known, particularly with reference to Europe, as the Middle Ages), which ended around 1500 AD, up to the present. This terminology is a historical periodization that is applied primarily to European and Western history.

What type of thing is modern history?

Modern history can be described as all of the following:

  • A branch of history – the recorded past, and the study of it.
    • A historical time period – quantified block of time in the past named via periodization. Such as "ancient history", "Middle Ages", "Renaissance", "modern history", etc.

Modern history, by period

Timelines of modern history

Modern history, by century

Modern history, by region

Modern history of Asia

Modern history of Europe

Modern history of North America

Modern history, by subject

Historiography of modern history

Modern history organizations

Modern history publications

Scholars of modern history

See also

References

External links

  • Vistorica – Timelines of European modern history
  • Journal of Contemporary History. SAGE Publications. ISSN  1461-7250 (Print ISSN  0022-0094)
  • Contemporary History Institute (CHI). ohiou.edu (ed., Analyzes the contemporary period in world affairs—the period from World War II to the present—from an interdisciplinary historical perspective.)
  • China and Europe, 1500–2000 and Beyond: What is Modern?. Columbia University
Videos


Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Draft:Outline_of_modern_history&oldid=1215985795"