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 *******My view is that there is ""history"" and there is ""the present"".  ""History"" includes ""the present"" and thus any article that discusses ""history"" should also discuss the present as the endpoint of history but the discussion of the present should be in the context of history.  If there are two separate articles discusing ""history"" and ""the present"", then the ""history"" article should discuss the present lightly and the article on ""the present"" should discuss ""history"" lightly.  The demarcation between ""history"" and ""the present"" is hard to define but is roughly that point where significant changes are not found.   "