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Draft:Outline of modern history

History covering 1500 AD to the present From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

Modern history encompasses the following topics:

What type of thing is modern history?

Modern history can be described as all of the following:

  • A branch of the humanities
  • A social science
    • 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

Modern history, by region

Modern history, by subject

Historiography of modern history

Modern history organizations

Modern history publications

Scholars of modern history

See also

References

  • 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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