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Employment in History

• Academic
  • Career Network (Chronicle of Higher Education)
    (includes public history)
  • Fulbright Scholar Program
    (includes global opportunities for teaching)
  • HERO Higher Education and Research Opportunities in the United Kingdom
  • H-Net Job Guide
    (academic positions in history, the humanities, and the social sciences)
  • Inside Higher Ed - Careers
    (job postings for all higher education)
• General
  • Beyond Academe
    (for historians, mainly PhDs seeking second careers)
  • Careers for History Majors
    (miniguide from the American Historical Association)
  • Eastern Illinois University Career Services
  • JobWeb
    (from National Association of Colleges and Employers)
  • Monster and MonsterTrak
    (commercial jobsite and resume posting)
  • Catherine Lavender, "What Can I Do With a History Major?"
    (posted by Eastern Illinois University, History Dept.)
• Government
  
  • Internet Job Source
    (for jobs in federal, state, and local government)
  • Internships in Federal History
    (from Society for History in the Federal Government)
  • USAjobs
    (official job site of the United States federal government; check, for example, "GS-170 Historian" classification)
• Museum, Archives, Public History
  • Dispatch
    (American Association for State and Local History, monthly newsletter, includes job opportunities, members only)
  • Graduate Students Forum, American Historical Association, Perspectives (February 2004), includes:
    • Louise Pubols, "Doing History in Exhibit Halls: The History PhD and a Museum Career"
    • Emily Sohmer Tai, "Teaching History at a Community College"
  • Museum Careers Job Search
    (from American Association of Museums, AAM)
  • National Council on Public History, Job Listing
  • Society of American Archivists, Online Employment Bulletin