Historical periods
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How do you narrate a period that had no clear beginning or end?
The long eighteenth century and the short twentieth both bend the calendar — who coined them?
Was the Renaissance a real break with the Middle Ages?
BC and AD vs BCE and CE: the notation fight is about more than two letters
Julian and Gregorian calendars disagree and the gap keeps growing
Some periods are named after kings and others after technologies — what does the naming habit reveal?
Japanese reign names reset the calendar with every emperor — how do you convert them?
Century labels like the 1900s are ambiguous: 1900 to 1909 or the whole hundred years?
Is the Belle Époque a period or a Parisian mood?
Where can teachers find a free outline of history that matches a national curriculum?
The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era overlap in time — American period names are arguments not dates
Is the tripartite ancient-medieval-modern scheme a European export that does not fit most of the world?
Why do academic books say c. 1500 instead of just 1500?
1582 lost ten days and nobody who went to bed on the fourth of October woke up on the fifth
How do you write early thirteenth century so nobody reads it as the 1300s?
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