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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 [http://www.citizendium.org/cfa.html here] to become an editor, and then add yourself to Category:History Editors.
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 [http://www.citizendium.org/cfa.html here] to become an editor, and then add yourself to Category:History Editors.


Those who are unsure about committing to the Citizendium project as a whole should read our [[CZ:History Workgroup/Recruitment Letter|call to action.]]
Those who are unsure about committing to the Citizendium project as a whole should read our [[CZ:History Workgroup/Recruitment Letter|call to action.]]


==News==
==High priority articles==


November 20th - I have created this page, and begun categorizing the high priority articles listed below into the proper category. --[[User:Dana Lutenegger|Dana Lutenegger]] 00:59, 21 November 2006 (CST)
In the list of articles below, the existence of an <u>approved version</u> is indicated by underlining.


==Proposed subgroups==
If you begin work on one of the articles from the list below, please be sure to add the article to the Astronomy Workgroup Top list (add <nowiki>[[Category:History Workgroup (Top)]]</nowiki> at the bottom of the article's page).


*American History
If you want to import one of these articles from Wikipedia, please read [http://pilot.citizendium.org/wiki/Citizendium_Pilot:How_to_convert_Wikipedia_articles_to_Citizendium_articles How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles] first. In particular, please do not import WP articles unless you plan or beginning work on them "within the hour" as the article says.
# US History
 
# Latin American History
===Main subject areas===
*European History
# British History
# French History
# German History
# Spanish History
# Italian History
# Russian History
*Asian History
# Middle Eastern History
# East Asian History
*African History
# South African History
*Pacific History
# Australian History


==High priority articles==
==High priority articles==

Revision as of 18:27, 20 February 2007

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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.

Those who are unsure about committing to the Citizendium project as a whole should read our call to action.

High priority articles

In the list of articles below, the existence of an approved version is indicated by underlining.

If you begin work on one of the articles from the list below, please be sure to add the article to the Astronomy Workgroup Top list (add [[Category:History Workgroup (Top)]] at the bottom of the article's page).

If you want to import one of these articles from Wikipedia, please read How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles first. In particular, please do not import WP articles unless you plan or beginning work on them "within the hour" as the article says.

Main subject areas

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.

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