<p>just curious because its my strongest subject</p>
<p>Almost everything. Have you developed any long term career interests yet?</p>
<p>If you want to continue in history in graduate school you'll want to be aware from the start that:</p>
<p>1) you'll need to specialize
2) you'll need a modern research language appropriate to the specialization</p>
<p>If you're interested in teaching secondary school, aim for an MEd program that lets you start your masters work in your senior year.</p>
<p>If you're interested in "business" (e.g. consulting, banking, insurance, etc.) be sure to snag some quantitative skills.</p>
<p>If you think Law school is a possibility, just do everything you can to keep your GPA as close to perfect as possible.</p>
<p>"What do people do with a major in history?"</p>
<p>Well, you could become a history teacher/professor.</p>
<p>One of my dorm mates was a history major. Since graduation he has been hanging drywall. I think he likes it pretty well too.</p>
<p>Yeah, with a history major, you go to law school.</p>
<p>Or, as Cressida points out, you hang drywall.</p>
<p>what is hanging drywall?</p>
<p>or become a journalist.</p>
<p>PKswmr76 - essentially, it's putting up the wall of your house (the ones you paint on). history majors usually don't aim for this kind of profession.</p>
<p>Drywall. You know those thingies that divide up houses into rooms? After the carpenter hammers in some wood onto the floor and ceiling of a new house interior, along comes the drywall, in big white sheets of plaster. It gets hammered onto those wooden frames. That makes it a wall. Later, it gets painted and it's a room. Before drywall, people had to apply plaster as liquid gunk onto wooden walls, but those days are gone forever.</p>
<p>History majors can also work in nonprofit arts organizations, museums, libraries, archives and places like that. A friend of mine graduated Harvard with a history major and she worked for awhile doing research at an outdoor history museum, then for the National Endowment for the Humanities deciding which proposals deserved their financial support, then monitoring the grants they awarded.</p>
<p>Every state has a historical agency. There are also tourism departments. How about writing for the Biblical Archaeology Journal or American History magazine...and somebody has to write those textbooks you just read!</p>
<p>I think a lot of people iin these positions got PhD's first in history, then worked in those jobs (except for the drywall; that one is PhD-optional).</p>
<p>you can work at a library</p>
<p>Where I'm from, you need a degree in "informational sciences" to work in a library. Most of them have a masters degree in it too.</p>
<p>My uncle majored in history, went on for an MPA and is now a city manager.</p>
<p>nixon was a history mjr and he became president. prob not the best example but you are certainly not limited to being a professor</p>
<p>my opinion:
As a history major you would have to be creative as there are no jobs in 'history'.
What I mean is that you will need to think a little outside the box on this one if you are wanting to be anything other than a professor. Although being a professor may not be a bad thing because like physics, certain types of engineering, and medical research, universities are where the intellectual rock stars hang out and see all the action.
Let's think of what a major would be good for, or at least help. I am thinking of things like:
historian
appraisers of antiquities
auction houses
maybe mixed with the proper courses in art:
art historian
museums
etc.
Now I am nowhere near an expert on this but with some forethought I would think that you could avoid 'hanging drywall'.</p>
<p>What do people do with a degree in history? They teach us to recal lthe past and to try very hard not to repeat our mistakes!!!
Law
Government
Teaching
Writing/Editing/Publishing
Library Science
Anthropology
Any analytical profession that focuses upon research and writing.
Be proud that this is your strongest subject.</p>
<p>you can teach, write, or go to law school...or you can make history</p>
<p>I asked a history prof at BU the same thing and he says that most employers look for skills and train employees. Since history majors have all the skills (writing, researching, communications, god knows what...) it should be fine.</p>
<p>Whether he was trying to give me BS or not I don't know.</p>
<p>Bush also got a history degree too. A step up from Nixon I suppose...</p>