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Draft:Outline of modern history

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? edit

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 edit

Timelines of modern history

Modern history, by century edit

Modern history, by region edit

Modern history of Asia edit

Modern history of Europe edit

Modern history of North America edit

Modern history, by subject edit

Historiography of modern history edit

Modern history organizations edit

Modern history publications edit

Scholars of modern history edit

See also edit

References edit

External links edit

  • 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
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