CZ:History Workgroup

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History Workgroup
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The purpose of this History Workgroup is to focus and coordinate efforts to create and improve articles related to history. Authors and Editors interested in all areas of the subject are welcome in this group. If you wish to be an author in this field, please add yourself to Category:History Authors, introduce yourself on the History Workgroup Forum (linked below) and start improving our articles. If you meet the requirements to be a Citizendium Editor for this workgroup, please follow the directions found here to become an editor, and then add yourself to Category:History Editors.

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High priority articles

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Main subject areas

Civilization | History | History of the world | History of Science | History of Biology | Paradigm

Prehistory to Middle Ages

Ancient Egypt | Ancient Greece | Ancient Rome | History of China | Archaeology | Aztec | Black Death | Bronze Age | Byzantine Empire | Crusades | East-West Schism | Holy Roman Empire | Indus Valley Civilization | Iron Age | Maya civilization | Macedon | Middle Ages | Ottoman Empire | Prehistory | Stone Age | Sumer | Viking

Renaissance to Industrial Age

Age of Enlightenment | American Civil War | American Revolutionary War | Balkan Wars | British Empire | Cold War | English Civil War | European colonization of the Americas | French Revolution | Great Depression | History of South Africa in the apartheid era | The Holocaust | Industrial Revolution | Napoleonic Wars | Protestant Reformation | Renaissance | Russian Civil War | Russian Revolution of 1917 | Scientific Revolution | Scramble for Africa | Space exploration | Spanish Civil War | Vietnam War | World War I | World War II

Politicians and leaders

Akbar | Alexander the Great | Attila the Hun | Augustus | Pope Benedict XVI | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel | Otto von Bismarck | Simón Bolívar | Julius Caesar | Charlemagne | Winston Churchill | Cleopatra VII of Egypt | Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria | Charles de Gaulle | Hammurabi | Hannibal | Indira Gandhi | Hirohito | Adolf Hitler | Pope John Paul II | Genghis Khan | Vladimir Lenin | Mao Zedong | Benito Mussolini | Napoleon I of France | Kwame Nkrumah | Peter I of Russia | Qin Shi Huang | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Saladin | Shaka | Sitting Bull | Joseph Stalin | Josip Broz Tito | Timur | Leon Trotsky | Harry S. Truman | Victoria of the United Kingdom | George Washington | Wilhelm II of Germany | B. P. Koirala of Nepal

Revolutionaries and activists

Mahatma Gandhi | Che Guevara | Joan of Arc | Martin Luther King, Jr. | Mother Teresa

Explorers

Roald Amundsen | Jacques Cartier | Christopher Columbus | Hernán Cortés | Francis Drake | Vasco da Gama | John Franklin | Edmund Hillary | Ferdinand Magellan | Marco Polo | Zheng He

Naming convention: need a decision

Editor Benjamin Lowe asks whether Massachusetts: History should be changed to History of Massachusetts . That's a policy issue--what do people think? It's a policy issue for many articles: France: History, Japan: History etc. The Massachusetts: History format naturally leads to MAssachusetts: Economy/Education/Government etc, with the stress on the state. Richard Jensen. Richard Jensen 15:44, 9 April 2007 (CDT)

Here was Larry Sanger's response in a move the other day "17:52, 7 April 2007 Larry Sanger (Talk | contribs) North Carolina: History moved to History of North Carolina (Better to invite a free-standing article without a colon)". That seems to imply his preference. Matt Mahlmann 17:31, 9 April 2007 (CDT)

the goal is to help people find articles. When we have thousands of articles that start History of ... then it's hard to find things. When we have 10 articles that start Massachusetts: History or Massachusetts:Government or Massachusetts: Economy then searching is much easier. I assume people are interested in Massachusetts (rather than in history generally). Richard Jensen 17:38, 9 April 2007 (CDT)