Careers in History
A history major is actually very good training for a wide variety of careers. Below are some links with information on such careers. Please also see the links, further down, to various historical organizations.
Career Information
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What Can You Do With an Undergraduate Degree in History (AHA website)
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Career Fields for History Majors (UC Davis Website - "Your Future as a Historian")
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How a Major in History Gives You the Intangible Edge (AHA website)
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Famous history majors (UC Davis website)
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Famous history majors in politics and public life (University of Illinois website)
Historical Organizations, Associations, and Societies
- American Historical Association (main historical association for all historians in the U.S.)
- Organization of American Historians (main historical organization for historians specializing in American history)
- National Council for History Education (main historical organization for those teaching history at the K-12 level)
Below is a list of more specialized historical organizations, and you can find links to these and many others by clicking on this link, below:
Historical Societies - Extensive List (on the AHA website)
Examples of some of the specialized historical organizations to find through the link, above:
- American Society for Environmental History
- Association for the Study of African American Life and History
- Committee on Gay, Bisexual, Transgender History
- Conference on Asian History
- Conference on Latin American History
- Coordinating Council for Women in History
- Film & History
- Immigration and Ethnic History Society
- Labor and Working Class History Association
- National Council on Public History
- Oral History Association
- Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
- Western Association of Women Historians
- Western History Association
- World History Association