CZ:History Workgroup

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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News

November 20th - I have created this page, and begun categorizing the high priority articles listed below into the proper category. --Dana Lutenegger 00:59, 21 November 2006 (CST)

Proposed subgroups

• American History
• British History
• European History
• East Asian History
• Others?

High priority articles

This list was adapted from the Citizendium pilot:High priority articles for pilot page. Please feel free to add to it as you see fit.

1. Civilization
2. History
3. History of the world
   1. History of Science
      1. History of Biology DG
4. Paradigm

Prehistory to Middle Ages

1. Ancient Egypt
2. Ancient Greece
3. Ancient Rome
4. History of China
5. Archaeology
6. Aztec
7. Black Death
8. Bronze Age
9. Byzantine Empire
10. Crusade
11. East-West Schism
12. Holy Roman Empire
13. Indus Valley Civilization
14. Iron Age
15. Maya civilization
16. Macedon
17. Middle Ages
18. Ottoman Empire
19. Prehistory
20. Stone Age
21. Sumer
22. Viking

Renaissance to Industrial Age

1. Age of Enlightenment
2. American Civil War -- DS
3. American Revolutionary War -- KT
4. Balkan Wars
5. British Empire -- DS
6. Cold War - DS
7. English Civil War
8. European colonization of the Americas
9. French Revolution
10. Great Depression -- KT
11. History of South Africa in the apartheid era
12. The Holocaust -- KT
13. Industrial Revolution -- DS
14. Napoleonic Wars
15. Protestant Reformation
16. Renaissance
17. Russian Civil War
18. Russian Revolution of 1917
19. Scientific Revolution
20. Scramble for Africa -- DS
21. Space exploration
22. Spanish Civil War -- DS
23. Vietnam War -- KT
24. World War I -- DS
25. World War II -- DS

Politicians and leaders

1. Akbar
2. Alexander the Great - Jnc
3. Kofi Annan
4. Attila the Hun
5. Augustus - Phil Wardle
6. Pope Benedict XVI
7. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
8. Otto von Bismarck
9. Tony Blair - David Boothroyd
10. Simón Bolívar
11. George W. Bush -- KT
12. Julius Caesar - Phil Wardle
13. Charlemagne
14. Winston Churchill - Jnc
15. Cleopatra VII of Egypt - Phil Wardle
16. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
17. Charles de Gaulle
18. Hammurabi - LA
19. Hannibal - Phil Wardle
20. Indira Gandhi
21. Hirohito - Jnc
22. Adolf Hitler -- KT
23. Pope John Paul II
24. Genghis Khan
25. Vladimir Lenin
26. Nelson Mandela
27. Mao Zedong
28. Benito Mussolini
29. Napoleon I of France
30. Kwame Nkrumah
31. Peter I of Russia
32. Vladimir Putin
33. Qin Shi Huang
34. Franklin D. Roosevelt -- KT,DS
35. Saladin
36. Shaka
37. Sitting Bull -- KT
38. Joseph Stalin
39. Josip Broz Tito
40. Timur
41. Leon Trotsky
42. Harry S. Truman -- KT,DS
43. Victoria of the United Kingdom
44. George Washington -- KT
45. Wilhelm II of Germany
46. B. P. Koirala of Nepal

Revolutionaries and activists

1. Mahatma Gandhi - DS
2. Che Guevara -- KT
3. Joan of Arc -- JS imported revised article from Textop wiki
4. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- KT,DS
5. Osama bin Laden
6. Mother Teresa

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