History

Careers for Students of History - online version

By Constance Schulz, Page Putnam Miller, Aaron Marrs, and Kevin Allen.  Published by the American Historical Association, the National Council for Public History, and the Public History Program, University of South Carolina. online version.

“What can I do with a major in history?” Career counselors, job fairs, and even college faculty are full of advice about the many careers open to students who are contemplating or have completed an undergraduate major in history. While all that advice can be valuable, it does not address or answer a quite different question that many students who have chosen history as a major or minor may ask: what careers are open to me if I want to be an historian? Such students see the study of history not as part of a general education preparing them to be something else, but as a discipline and a profession with interests, skills, and methods in which they wish to be engaged. This booklet is for those who want to do history. We hope that it will provide you with guidance to help you reach that goal. . . . more