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Contemporary history

Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from about 1945 to the present. In the social sciences, contemporary history is also continuous with, and related to, the rise of postmodernity.

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Political history

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Contemporary history

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related to External links · 14
Contemporary history → Analyzes, Archived, BBC, CHI, Contemporary History Institute, Fordham UniversityJournal, Internet Modern History Sourcebook, ISSN, October, Print ISSN, SAGE Publications, Soviet Union Timeline, Wayback Machine, World War II
related to Health and pandemics · 7
Contemporary history → COVID-19, HIV/AIDS, Hong Kong, Russian, SARS, Several, Some

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