history? careers?

Question

i'm really interested in history. i love it. i'm extra interested in english history though. i want my career when i'm older to be history related? what does a historian do? and what jobs can i get to do with history and with a history degree?

Answer 1

A writer, student, or scholar of history.
One who writes or compiles a chronological record of events; a chronicler.

Historians research, analyze, and explain past events, people and their endeavors. Some historians help study and preserve archival materials, artifacts, and historic buildings and sites.
They look to many sources of information, including government records, periodicals, photographs, interviews, films, and unpublished manuscripts such as personal diaries and letters.
Historians usually study a particular era, country or region, or field, such as social, intellectual, political or diplomatic history.
You can do anything in this field. Teaching, archeology, without PhD though you would be working under another historian as an assistant

Answer 2

A professional historian gets paid to do research either through grants or fellowships. Usually these individuals are college history professors who have obtained Ph.Ds in their field of study.

I would talk to a career counselor on your college campus about your decision. You can either teach at the jr. college or university level. If you teach at the jr. college level, you only need a master's degree in history. At the university level, you would need a doctorate or be in the process of obtaining one.

I'm not sure what the job market is like, but I do know that lots of older history professors are now retiring and there are people needed to fill those positions.

Good luck with your studies. I would suggest reading books related to your field of study outside the classroom, so to speak. If you like British history, I would suggest reading books from historian Simon Schama (he is a history professor at Columbia University in New York). Also, ask your professors on what books and authors they would recommend, too. Study hard, get As and Bs, get into honor societies, etc. That would increase your chances of getting into a really good graduate program.

If being a historian does not work out for you, you can always take your history B.A. and go into museum work, law, or even library science. Always discuss this with your undergraduate adviser AND a career counselor on campus.

Answer 3

History degrees are sometimes used as a lead up to law or government service.

If you specialize in the history of a particular time you can become a teacher of it or go to places and study it (though you have to like looking through a lot of old books or similar materials).
If you specialize in the history of a particular place you can become an expert in it and go into government or company work as an adviser about that place.

Historians do jobs like: teach, research, give demonstrations at museums and the like, and many other things.

Answer 4

I applied my history degrees towards law, later education. Most government jobs simply ask for any kind of degree.....

Usually, carreers in history are as educators. There is a seperate Museum Science study for work in musuems; Anthropology study for archeology