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As you explore the many fascinating careers that await once you graduate with your liberal arts degree in historical studies, you may feel that your future is completely open-ended. There's a great sense of freedom in that, but at some point you'll need to choose a particular job to get your career started.

Historians work in many different fields, and not all of them involve museums and dusty artifacts. Here are some ideas to help you decide what to do for a living after graduate school.

History education. You don't need a PhD to teach in elementary or secondary schools—just a master's degree in history and a certificate in teaching. If being a university professor is your dream, you'll need to obtain a doctorate. History teachers work in a variety of non-academic settings, too, such as museums, historic sites, interpretive centers, and with the government.

Communications jobs for historians. Use your graduate education in history to become a writer, editor, or journalist. There are still jobs available in traditional print media, but if you have skills with technology (either website management or television and multimedia) you'll find jobs much more easily. Historians also work as records managers, archivists, and librarians in corporations and nonprofit organizations.

Become a legal advocate. Having a dual degree in history and law is a great combination, but you don't have to become an attorney to work in legal advocacy. Law office support staff need the unique research skills of historians, and your ability to synthesize information from a variety of sources—with a variety of outlooks—is essential to working with nonprofit foundations or with legislators.

Using your history background in business. For-profit businesses hire history program graduates in a number of important roles: human resources and administration; information management; marketing and public relations; and as archivists and legal advisers. Your knowledge of cultures and communications are invaluable. Some businesses require practical help to research the company's history, to investigate resources before investing in them, or to write marketing documents that include information about the past.

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