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This displays a very skewed view of what history actually is. Unfortunately, that’s not at all surprising since the majority of high schools do an extremely poor job of teaching history. </p>
<p>Dates and wars are aspects of political history, which is only one subdiscipline of history and no longer the most popular. (Military history, meanwhile, has fallen out of favor entirely.) Your interests align perfectly with social history, which is rather different. Spinning out of the Annales school (spurred by Braudel and his truly incredible history of the early modern Mediterranean), social history uses related disciplines like anthropology, economics, and demography to examine “ordinary people” in the past. This includes such diverse topics as the diet of slaves in ancient Rome, the role of midwives in Medieval society, the class system in Colonial America, and popular entertainment in the early 1900s. </p>
<p>A history major coupled with a degree in education, business, or museum studies could set you up quite nicely for a job in a history museum. Public history is a growing field. Such jobs often expect a MA, however. </p>
<p>Anthropology might also be worth a look, as others have said, but cultural anthropology frequently focuses on modern cultures. Archaeology would be a poor fit, I think, unless the college in question has a strong emphasis on historical archaeology. </p>