I really wish I would have caught this when it was first asked.
To sum up: to be an expert in any field-it’s very helpful to know that fields history from a learning mistakes and realizing possibilities standpoint.
To detail and give an example: I think as history goes, so goes culture, and broadly culture is the make up of the way humans live. History is apart of every other study. The history of a subject (for example) math, fashion, science, music, education, sex, women, on and on and on is a broad part of each individual subject. The last class I took in college was “Biographical Approach to Scientific Literacy” basically looking at great scientists and their discoveries from a historical standpoint, and it brought out so much significant scientific knowledge.