@joelhern
Traditional history often remains trapped in narrow national-political frameworks, missing broader patterns visible only through lenses of economics, anthropology, climate science, psychology, genetics, epidemiology, and digital humanities.Cross-disciplinary approaches reveal:How climate shaped civilizations (not just kings and battles)
How microbes influenced empires more than generals
How cognitive biases distorted decision-making across centuries
How genetic data rewrites migration narratives
The most transformative historical works of the 21st century (Diamond, Pomeranz, Scheidel, Pinker, Manning, McNeill) have all been deeply interdisciplinary.The future of meaningful historical understanding lies not in more detail within silos, but in bolder synthesis across them.Related websites:
https://www.historians.org/perspectives-article/the-uses-of-interdisciplinarity-in-history-2021
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