May the force (of history) be with youNovember 27, 2015 by Andrew LebovichI’ll admit it, sometimes I’m a sucker for the kind of pop culture hot takes that are sucking up an increasing amount of social media oxygen. But for all of the problematic constructs that Jackson and Nexon correctly document and dismantle, they are missing one important word: Anachronism. However, the field itself does not place the same emphasis on avoiding anachronism as History does, and that matters. Sometimes this emphasis can go too far, where historians overcontextualize or avoid frameworks for fear of omitting important details, as the historian and sociologist William Sewell wrote in The Logics of History. But the focus on avoiding anachronism is also a key analytical strength of History.