For History Professors & Department Chairs
Data on careers for history majors? Enrollment trends and departmental strategies to attract students? Stories of student success? Find all these and more to make the case to students, colleagues, parents about the value of studying history.
What is the value of a History degree?
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2016 History Discipline Core
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History is Not a Useless Major
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Making the Case: The Many Venues for Historians' Advocacy
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The Case for History and the Humanities
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Advising Mom and Dad: History Majors and Family Worries
Department Strategies:
Improving Introductory Courses
Rethinking Curriculum
Enrollments and Majors
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The History Major
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Department Recruiting Materials
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What good is a history major?
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History Enrollments Hold Steady as Department Efforts Intensify: Results of the 2019 AHA Enrollment Survey
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Decline in History Majors Continues, Departments Respond
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How Departments are Tackling Lower Enrollments
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Major Renovations: Reviving Undergraduate History at Sam Houston State
Other Resources:
Why Study History?
Interested in learning more? Check out the AHA's "Why Study History?" page.
Careers for History Majors Booklet
Through clear graphs and informal prose, readers will find hard data, practical advice, and answers to common questions about the study of history and the value it affords to individuals, their workplaces, and their communities in this new booklet from the AHA.
You can purchase this booklet online at Oxford University Press. For questions about the booklet, please contact Karen Lou (klou@historians.org). For bulk orders contact OUP directly.
External Resources
A list of tools, essays, and editorials from other organizations and individuals that can help advocate for history and the humanities.
Everything has a History Poster
Those interested in ordering an Everything has a History poster can contact Matthew Keough (mkeough@historians.org) for more information while supplies last.