The interdisciplinary history movement named for the journal now called Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociale emerged in France in the early twentieth century. The Annales School connects radically different approaches, for example, geography, economics, sociology, and anthropology. It displaces traditional narrative history centered on political, military, and religious elites, and embraces wide-ranging theories, methodologies, and sources of data. The Annales School poses a continuing challenge for historical sociology and for sociology more generally: how to conduct social science under (historicist) conditions in a world where enduring traditions, practices, social institutions, and structures of life frame both everyday and “historic” events.