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

• Early modern period
• Late modern period
• Contemporary history
• Modernity

Modern history, by century

• 16th century
• 17th century
• 18th century
• 19th century
• 20th century
• 21st century

Modern history, by region

Modern history of Asia

• 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

• History of modern Greece
  • Timeline of modern Greek history
• History of the Italian Republic
• Scotland in the modern era
• History of the Soviet Union
• Modern history of Switzerland

Modern history of North America

• History of Canada
• History of the United States
• History of Mexico

Modern history, by subject

• History of modern Christianity
• History of modern literature

Historiography of modern history

• Historiography of the Enlightenment
• Historiography of the 19th century
• Historiography of the 20th century

Modern history organizations

Modern history publications

Scholars of modern history

See also

• Outline of history

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

• 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