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How About Some Optimism? Changing the Conversation around Career Prospects...
By Jason Steinhauer In February I had the privilege of visiting a public university in the Midwest and meeting with students from its graduate history program, both masters and PhD candidates. I left...
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What I Learned from Visiting a Historical Site: An Undergraduate’s Experience...
A recent report from Humanities Indicators, a project of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, showed that less than a quarter of Americans aged 18 years or older visited a historical park or...
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Changing Course: The Flexibility of a History Degree
By Kamarin Takahara “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Because I spent most of my time surrounded by teachers, I answered this question when I was young with: “Well, I want to be a teacher.” As...
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Thinking Like a Historian in Scrubs: How I Use My BA in History
By David Glenn Twenty seven years ago, I was a newly declared sophomore history major. I’d fallen hard for labor history. I wanted to study the American workplace as a site of both solidarity and...
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History, Economics, and Food: A Case for Interdisciplinary Education
By Rachel Snyder Applying for college is stressful enough without having to pick a major. That is why after writing a personal statement, answering philosophical questions in less than 500 words, and...
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Historians of the Future: An Undergraduate at the Annual Meeting
By James Rick While attending a panel on “the Culture Wars” in American history at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Atlanta, I was struck by something a fellow attendee...
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From Museums to Corporate History: My Unpredictable, but Exciting Career as a...
By Mark Speltz Twenty-five years have passed since I chose to pursue a history degree. Amazingly, it is one decision I have never regretted or second guessed. Yet it would be a lie to suggest to...
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One Short Week in Denver: An Undergraduate History Club Goes to the AHA...
By Blanca Drapeau There we were. A small group of Californian undergrads, winter layers piled over our business casual attire, perusing the AHA 2017 annual meeting program over coffee and pastries. We...
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The National History Center’s New Teaching Decolonization Resource Collection
By Annabel LaBrecque In a Native American history class, during our second in-class discussion of the semester, I mentioned the term “decolonization” while deliberating over that week’s readings about...
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A Career in Corporate Finance: How My History Degree Helped Me Get There
By Cliff Manko When I interviewed for a job in corporate finance at Houghton Mifflin in 1992, the publishing firm’s CEO was far more interested in my history degree than my CPA. He grilled me about...
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