Historical periods
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How do you narrate a period that had no clear beginning or end?
BC and AD vs BCE and CE: the notation fight is about more than two letters
Japanese reign names reset the calendar with every emperor — how do you convert them?
Julian and Gregorian calendars disagree and the gap keeps growing
Was the Renaissance a real break with the Middle Ages?
Some periods are named after kings and others after technologies — what does the naming habit reveal?
The long eighteenth century and the short twentieth both bend the calendar — who coined them?
When exactly does early modern stop being early — and who decides?
Where can teachers find a free outline of history that matches a national curriculum?
Glossary of history versus encyclopedia of history: which one do you reach for during exam revision?
The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era overlap in time — American period names are arguments not dates
Is the Belle Époque a period or a Parisian mood?
Century labels like the 1900s are ambiguous: 1900 to 1909 or the whole hundred years?
How do you write early thirteenth century so nobody reads it as the 1300s?
Dark Ages was a value judgment before it was a period — should the term be retired?
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