This study discusses the recent return of the longue durée in historical research, as a major type of historical analysis that prioritizes major issues and global history. In the many years of its absence, microhistory steeped in details and based on a short-term vision prevailed, with fragmented studies limited to a narrow circle of readers, hindering coherent synthetic works. But this return, aided by the abundance of digital tools and data, is framed by new ambitions represented in the desire to contribute to the interpretation of events and phenomena from a global perspective, to provide synthetic research that can be read by specialists and laypersons alike, and to enrich the debate related to public policies alongside other actors in the neighbouring humanities and social sciences.
