war history
Military past documented
War history is the study or narrative account of armed conflicts—their causes, conduct, and consequences.
It encompasses military strategy, battles, political contexts, and social impacts: He's a war history buff who can name every major engagement of World War II.
The field ranges from academic scholarship to popular accounts of specific wars.
- guerrilla warfareIrregular combat using ambushes
- Napoleon BonaparteFrench military dictator
- front linesActive battle area
- peace treatiesFormal agreements ending wars
- imperialismExtending dominion over others
historiography · refugee crises · home front · civilian casualties · nationalism · Napoleonic Wars · arms races · counterinsurgency · primary sources · campaigns · battle tactics · sieges · trench warfare · no man's land · veterans · colonialism · cavalry · battles
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- History Bookstextbook, biography, memoir, chronicle, anthology
- history topicsancient Rome, ancient Greece, Renaissance, French Revolution, American Revolution
- history educationhistorian, textbook, primary source, secondary source, lesson plans
- museum subjectsart, science, nature, dinosaurs, fossils
- Xiangkhoangunexploded ordnance, bomb craters, Hmong
war historycultural history
Study of collective traditions
architectural history · art history · history of science · literary history
war historysocial history
Study of ordinary lives
women's history · family history · labor history · cultural history · economic history