Introduction: Fifty Years of Interdisciplinary History 1970–2020 With this volume, the Journal of Interdisciplinary History enters its fiftieth year of publication. In order to celebrate and demonstrate how interdisciplinary scholarship has flourished and evolved over five decades, we have commissioned essays by members of our board of editors and long-time collaborators on their special fields of expertise. The first set of those special articles appears in this issue, Michael McCormick’s “Climates of History, Histories of Climate: From History to Archaeoscience,” and Peter Temin’s “Words and Numbers: A New Approach to Writing Ancient History.” In the succeeding three issues of the fiftieth volume of the JIH, we will publish the remaining articles written for this special series: They include George Alter’s “From Data Scarcity to Data Abundance: The Role of Demographic Models in Historical Demography”; Peter Burke’s “Art and History, 1969–2019”; Peter A. Coclanis’ “Field Notes: Agricultural History’s New Plot”; Steven A. Epstein’s “Environmental History in the JIH, 1970–2020”; Anne Hardy’s “The Under-Appreciated Rodent: Harbingers of Plague from the Black Death to Twenty-First-Century America”; and E. Anthony Wrigley’s “The Interplay of Demographic, Economic, and Social History.” Additionally, and not yet titled, are contributions from Myron P. Gutmann, Steven Ruggles, and Anne E. C. McCants. These new essays both exemplify the special fields of interdisciplinary history as it has evolved over fifty years and point the way toward future research on these and related topics. The JIH prides itself on its receptivity to new areas and foci of research into past times; on its ability to publish innovative, even speculative, scholarly research findings; and on its openness to broad, and deep, connections between historicism and advances in cognate sciences and humanities. The 50th Year: Introduction

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简介：跨学科历史五十年1970–2020

简介：跨学科历史五十年（1970年至2020年）凭借本册，《跨学科历史杂志》进入了其五十年的出版历史。为了庆祝和展示跨学科奖学金在过去的五十年中的繁荣和发展，我们委托编辑委员会成员和长期合作者就其专业领域发表论文。这些特殊文章的第一套出现在本期，迈克尔·麦考密克（Michael McCormick）的“历史气候，气候历史：从历史到考古学”和彼得·特敏（Peter Temin）的“单词与数字：书写古代历史的新方法”。在JIH第五十卷的后续三期中，我们将发布为该特别系列撰写的其余文章：它们包括George Alter的“从数据稀缺到数据丰富：人口模型在历史人口学中的作用”；彼得·伯克（Peter Burke）的《艺术与历史，1969–2019》；彼得·科克拉尼斯（Peter A. Coclanis）的“田野笔记：农业历史的新情节”；史蒂文·爱泼斯坦（Steven A. Epstein）的《 1970-2020年JIH中的环境史》；安妮·哈迪（Anne Hardy）的“被低估的啮齿动物：从黑死病到二十一世纪美国的瘟疫预兆”；和E. Anthony Wrigley的“人口，经济和社会历史的相互作用”。此外，还没有标题的是Myron P. Gutmann，Steven Ruggles和Anne EC McCants的贡献。这些新论文既说明了跨学科历史在五十多年的发展中的特殊领域，也为今后在这些及相关主题上的研究指明了道路。JIH以其对新领域和过去研究重点的接受能力而感到自豪。其发布创新的，甚至是投机性的学术研究成果的能力；以及它对历史主义与相关科学和人文科学进步之间广泛而深入的联系的开放性。50周年：简介