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
Modern history, by century edit
Modern history, by region edit
Modern history of Asia edit
- History of modern Egypt
- History of modern Mongolia
- History of modern Serbia
- Modern history of Syria
- History of modern Tunisia
- Modern history of Ukraine
- History of Vietnam since 1945
- Modern history of Yemen
Modern history of Europe edit
- History of modern Greece
- History of the Italian Republic
- Scotland in the modern era
- History of the Soviet Union
- Modern history of Switzerland
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
- Videos
- The French Revolution: Crash Course World History #29 – YouTube
- Haitian Revolutions: Crash Course World History #30 – YouTube
- Latin American Revolutions: Crash Course World History #31 – YouTube
- Coal, Steam, and The Industrial Revolution: Crash Course World History #32 – YouTube
- Capitalism and Socialism: Crash Course World History #33 – YouTube
- Samurai, Daimyo, Matthew Perry, and Nationalism: Crash Course World History #34 – YouTube
- Imperialism: Crash Course World History #35 – YouTube
- Archdukes, Cynicism, and World War I: Crash Course World History #36 – YouTube
- Communists, Nationalists, and China's Revolutions: Crash Course World History #37 – YouTube
- World War II: Crash Course World History #38 – YouTube
- USA vs USSR Fight! The Cold War: Crash Course World History #39 – YouTube
- Decolonization and Nationalism Triumphant: Crash Course World History #40 – YouTube