{"id":4651,"date":"2012-08-14T01:23:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T01:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/?page_id=4651"},"modified":"2024-06-25T19:04:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T19:04:23","slug":"potential-careers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/history\/potential-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential Careers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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History alum Kristin Kaspar<\/strong> ’09, of Hopkins, MN, works as a software analyst. She also published a history of the Hopkins Library<\/a> on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

History majors do more than become history teachers \u2014 not that there’s anything wrong with that! Think of the diverse careers of all of these famous people: John F. Kennedy<\/strong>, Martha Stewart<\/strong>, Sacha Baron Cohen<\/strong>, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar<\/strong>, Steve Carell<\/strong>, Jimmy Buffett<\/strong>, Julia Child, Conan O’Brien, Lauryn Hill, Edward Norton<\/strong>, and Lee Iacocca<\/strong>. All of them were history majors in college.\u00a0 Here’s a list of even more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

History majors find work in archives, libraries, museums, publishing houses, research institutions, philanthropic organizations, as well as in management, advertising, banking, government, insurance, law, marketing, journalism, public relations, tourism, and lots more.<\/p>\n

What a History Major Prepares You to Do<\/h2>\n

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What Our Department Alumni Do<\/h2>\n

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History majors do more than become history teachers \u2014 not that there’s anything wrong with that! Think of the diverse careers of all of these famous people: John F. Kennedy, Martha Stewart, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Steve Carell, Jimmy Buffett, Julia Child, Conan O’Brien, Lauryn Hill, Edward Norton, and Lee Iacocca. All of them …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4651","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4651"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47614,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4651\/revisions\/47614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}