Careers in History

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.

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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