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Vasily Tatishchev (1686–1750), first historian of modern Russia; Giambattista Vico (1688–1744), Italian historian, first modern philosopher of history; Voltaire (1694–1778), writer on Europe and France; Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim (1694–1755), Lutheran historian; Charlotta Frölich (1698–1770), Swedish historian
The Education of Historians for Twenty-first Century (2003) report by the Committee on Graduate Education of the American Historical Association; Breisach, Ernst. Historiography: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, 3rd edition, 2007, ISBN 0-226-07278-9; Boia, Lucian et al., eds. Great Historians of the Modern Age: An International Dictionary (1991)
Alistair Horne (1925–2017) – modern French military history; Julian Jackson (born 1954) – 20th century France; Douglas Johnson (1925–2005) – historian of modern France; Simon Kitson (born c. 1967) – historian of Vichy France; Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929–2023) – history of the French peasantry; Michael Marrus (born 1941 ...
Also eon. age Age of Discovery Also called the Age of Exploration. The time period between approximately the late 15th century and the 17th century during which seafarers from various European polities traveled to, explored, and charted regions across the globe which had previously been unknown or unfamiliar to Europeans and, more broadly, during which previously isolated human populations ...
The modern era or the modern period is considered the current historical period of human history. It was originally applied to the history of Europe and Western history for events that came after the Middle Ages , often from around the year 1500, like the Reformation in Germany giving rise to Protestantism .
The historian Arthur O. Lovejoy (1873–1962) coined the phrase history of ideas [8] and initiated its systematic study [9] in the early decades of the 20th century. Johns Hopkins University was a "fertile cradle" to Lovejoy's history of ideas; [10] he worked there as a professor of history, from 1910 to 1939, and for decades he presided over the regular meetings of the History of Ideas Club. [11]
Historians who lived and wrote in the 21st century (2001-current). Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. ...
Herodotus [a] (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, romanized: Hēródotos; c. 484 – c. 425 BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.