The History Major | Perspectives on History

On History Enrollments

Emil Moussa | May 1, 2017

To the editor:The AHA and Perspectives constantly cover the fact that there is a decline in history ...

History Is Not a Useless Major: Fighting Myths with Data

Paul B. Sturtevant | Apr 1, 2017

Over the past 20 years, warnings from a variety of sources—from career counselors to administrators ...

Why Study History? Survey of History BAs Provides Some Real Answers

Sadie Bergen and Emily Swafford | Jan 9, 2017

“Wondering What to Do with Your BA in History?” is one of the AHA’s most popular publications. The A...

Addressing the Issue of Declining Enrollments

Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt | Oct 17, 2016

In the September issue of Perspectives on History, Julia Brookins shared the results of an AHA surve...

Survey Finds Fewer Students Enrolling in College History Courses

Julia Brookins | Sep 1, 2016

Undergraduate teaching offers many historians their widest audiences, as well as some of the most di...

The Decline in History Majors: What Is to Be Done?

Julia Brookins | May 10, 2016

As the March 2016 issue of Perspectives on History reported, the number of people earning a US bache...

New Data Show Large Drop in History Bachelor's Degrees

Julia Brookins | Mar 1, 2016

New data from the National Center for Education Statistics show a dramatic decline in the number of ...

Assessing Dual Enrollment

Introduction by Julia Brookins, Illustrations by Zoila Torres | Sep 1, 2015

In January 1990, I started taking a course called American History through the Novel and Film at Sim...

Allen Mikaelian | Dec 1, 2014

The release of new data from the US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) has prompted fre...

Allen Mikaelian | Nov 1, 2014

The charts below are a new interactive online-only feature, and an experiment. We hope readers will ...