Integrating interdisciplinary methods into history research can enhance the understanding of historical events, circumstances, and phenomena, because history research involves the systematic investigation and interpretation of past events, people, cultures, and the societies. This paper discusses integrating interdisciplinary method into history research. The study was premised on primary and secondary sources of information and adopted the multi-disciplinary approach. This paper revealed that the benefits of integrating interdisciplinary method into history research to historical researchers are broadened perspectives, enhanced analysis, contextual understanding, holistic understanding, and innovative solutions. Findings from the paper also shows that the interdisciplinary methods in history in which historian can apply why carrying out research in history are historical sociology, historical anthropology, economic history, and environmental history. The paper argued that the challenges historians face in using interdisciplinary research method in carrying out research are methodological integration, balancing depth and breadth, disciplinary boundaries, and training and expertise. The paper concluded that by integrating interdisciplinary methods, historians can create richer, more nuanced narratives of the past, and can tackle complex issues from multiple angles, leading to more comprehensive insights. Among others the paper suggested that history researchers should trained and encouraged to use interdisciplinary method why carrying out research because it will give them a more comprehensive understanding of complex issues, and can lead to innovative solutions.
Keywords: Integrating, history, history research, interdisciplinary methods
