My BA was in Modern & Contemporary History.
How is that defined? Isn't the term "contemporary history" rather oxymoronic? 
It's the present that just became the past. There is always lots of new material to study.
Where does modern end and contemporary begin?
Modernism in art peters out around 1950, modernism in architecture lasts maybe 15 years longer. The usage of the term 'modern' in books of the English language, according to Google's Ngram Viewer, peaks between 1930 and 1935. The term 'postmodern' begins its takeoff in the 1940s or 1950s. Are these the kinds of markers used to denote the difference? But then again, if that is our criteria then say, the year 1975, is neither modern nor contemporary.
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