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.
Career Information
Historical Organizations, Associations, and Societies
- (main historical association for all historians in the U.S.)
- (main historical organization for historians specializing in American history)
- (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:
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