Is post-1945 history underrated?

Because it's modern history. There's plenty of people who do care about it but I think there's a lot more who care more about ancient history.

The older an event is the easier it is to see how it changed the world. It makes certain things much more important historically. A thousand years people might be talking about how the Falklands War was the beginning of the mighty Empire of Argentina. Just joking but you get my point.

>>3293684
In modern history you can have an almost minute-by-minute breakdown of important events (like coups or elections) thanks to the abundance of records. In ancient history you may have decades with very little information.
I guess some might prefer ancient history precisely because of this.

>>3293681

The problem with modern history is that we're still in the middle of it. We are still dealing directly with the legacy of WWII, let alone more recent events, whereas, something like the sack of Byzantium has been, for all reasonable intents, settled history. Older history is more fun because it's a written book that you can separate yourself from and enjoy.

>>3293710

Good point. We don't know who the Mitch McConnell of the Punic Wars was. All that's left is the really juicy shit.

>>3293681
>It feels like most of the people who even have some interest in history know more about Antiquity or the Middle Ages than about the recent decades.
There's a whole lot more of ancient history than there is of recent decades, so if we assume that people who are interested in history spread out there specializations more or less evenly there would naturally be more people who knew more about pre-WWII history than people who specialized in Cold War politics, for example.

>>3293727
>We are still dealing directly with the legacy of WWII

I used to hear this in the 90s, but at this point there should be a new "watershed moment" for history. 1989-Fall of Communism. Post-2000 history could already be it's own category.

>>3294083

I'm not saying other more currently pertinent things didn't happen between then and now, only that there are still some consequences of WWII not separated by an intervening chain of events.