By now, we have all heard of computational humanities. We knew of digital humanities and digital history, but now, all of a sudden, it seems that computational history is a thing. I will not get into defining how these four things differ (we all know the field has a habit of both obsessing over and avoiding self-definitions), but here’s a short history of computational history approaches in case you are new to the field or have come across the term through the recent wave of AI tools. This blogpost may or may not be an ad for my recent article on the topic, which you may check out in case you want to know more: Lang, Sarah A. “(Doing) Computational History: The Role of Data Work in Computational Approaches.” Histories 6, no. 2 (2026): 26. https://doi.org/10.3390/histories6020026 Where it began and where we are now Computational history didn’t appear overnight. Its roots go back to the 1960s and 1970s, when historians
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