Noun
modern history (uncountable)
The history of the world beginning after the Middle Ages.
Synonyms: modern period, modern times, modern era, modern age, modernity
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so. Learned Hand
All history is modern history. Wallace Stevens
I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency. Robert Scheer
The neologism âdivâsi constitutes one of the most successful disinformation campaigns in modern history. Koenraad Elst
I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president -- with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln -- just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. Barack Obama
The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments. Susan Sontag