INTRODUCTION: The application of interdisciplinary information technology is becoming more and more widespread, and the application of visual knowledge mapping in the process of students' independent learning is also becoming more and more important; therefore, in this context, takes the history discipline as a starting point to study the construction of visual knowledge mapping of students' independent learning ability under the drive of interdisciplinary projects.OBJECTIVES: To enrich the means of student independent learning aids in China's history discipline and enhance the modernization level of China's history discipline construction; to solve the problem that student independent learning ability under the drive of China's interdisciplinary projects can not be visualized and observed; to further improve China's distance education environment and to enhance the educational capacity of the history discipline.METHODS: Firstly, the relevant modeling uses a visual knowledge map. Secondly, the neural network model assesses students' independent learning ability in history learning. Finally, the convolutional neural network model is used to assess the efficiency of the knowledge map.RESULTS: The Sig and Tanh function models have better robustness, and the ReLU and PReLU functions have weaker interdisciplinary driving performance. However, the iterative Knownledge1 and Knownledge2 models have better robustness of the visualized knowledge graph.CONCLUSION: In studying history, the interdisciplinary, project-driven, and independent learning ability of students could be more vital, and our country should vigorously develop new information network technology to improve the status quo of history discipline education in China.