In humanities, history is the study, documentation, and analysis of the past or past events.
Two noted physicochemical history scholars include: Henry Adams and Morris Zucker.
Big history
The newly emerging subject of “big history”, such as outlined in the works David Christian and his Maps of Time: an Introduction to Big History, tends to incorporate a hmolscience perspective, such as attempting digressions on thermodynamics, big bang theory, and evolution, etc., with the construct of traditional modes of history, e.g. civil war, ancient civilizations, etc., presentation.
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