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Historians

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Research or write a history, biography, or work of historical fiction to explore the roles and responsibilities of a historian.

Talk to your history teacher or a history professor at a nearby college to explore a career in the field of history and education.

Talk to historians at museums, historical sites, and archives to discover if this type of historical work might be for you.

Visit http://careers.historians.org/jobs and https://www.oah.org/membership/membership-resources for job listings.

Read the Journal of American History, The American Historian, and "Process," the blog of the Organization of American Historians, to learn more about the field. Information on these resources is available at https://www.oah.org/publications.