The History Major
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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... -
The Earnings Potential of History Majors: New Studies Detail the Gender Gap, Long-Term Prospects, and the Impact of Graduate Degrees
Allen Mikaelian | Dec 1, 2014
The release of new data from the US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) has prompted fre... -
Drilling Down into the Latest Undergraduate Data: History Bachelors Decline, but Several Upward Trends Persist
Allen Mikaelian | Nov 1, 2014
The charts below are a new interactive online-only feature, and an experiment. We hope readers will ... -
Department Specializations and the History Major: What We Learned from the AHA’s 2014–15 Directory
Allen Mikaelian | Oct 1, 2014
What are history departments offering, and how well do those offerings match student interests? We r... -
New Data on the History BA: Dynamic Growth Elusive, but Potential Still There
Allen Mikaelian | Mar 1, 2014
The latest data from the federal government on the number of bachelor’s degrees in history awarded i...
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