The Active Art of Learning from History

A ninth pillar is to actively engage in Interdisciplinary Connection, linking historical findings with fields such as sociology, psychology, and economics to enhance explanatory power. For instance, historical research into revolutions becomes profoundly richer when informed by psychological concepts of mass hysteria or sociological theories of resource distribution and class conflict. History provides the data, and the social sciences offer the conceptual tools to interpret that data and make its lessons more broadly applicable to modern social challenges.