The private sector offers opportunities for students with a history background, who can research, document, analyze, synthesize, and communicate effectively.
Advertising, Publication, Promotion, and Marketing
| * | Studying and analyzing market trends
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| * | Placing corporate activity in historical perspective
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| * | Managing corporate archives
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| * | Preparing historical data for corporate promotion
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Banking
| * | Developing historical financial, economic, and political risk analyses
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| * | Managing archives
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| * | Researching policy issues affecting the public and private sectors
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| * | Developing historical displays
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| * | Writing and teaching corporate history
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Communications
| * | Researching and writing historical documentaries and narratives
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| * | Identifying and analyzing public trends
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| * | Providing background and documentation for motion pictures, network and cable television, and independent production companies
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Insurance
| * | Researching and evaluating case histories
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| * | Preparing studies of policy matters
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| * | Lobbying at all levels of government in behalf of the corporate interest
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| * | Analyzing the impact of legislation on company operations
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| * | Maintaining corporate archives
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Investment Services
| * | Managing corporate records and maintaining its archives
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| * | Conducting research and analysis for firms that purchase, issue, and sell corporate equity, including brokerage firms and investment banks
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Journalism
| * | Researching records and archives to provide historical perspective for current events
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| * | Conducting oral interviews
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| * | Writing and editing newspapers, news, trade, and professional journals, historical and popular periodicals and magazines, textbooks, and other works of non-fiction
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Law and paralegal
| * | Researching public and private archives and records collections
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| * | Collecting oral history for depositions
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| * | Developing support material from historical evidence
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Manufacturing
| * | Charting and evaluating markets, finances, economics, and political risk
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| * | Instructing new employees in corporate history
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| * | Conducting workshops on cultures and historical background of countries in which the company operates
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| * | Gathering information and oral histories documenting organizational history
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| * | Writing the corporate history
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| * | Preparing and displaying exhibits of archival materials and memorabilia
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| * | Managing company records and maintaining its archives
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Mineral Extraction Industries
| * | Analyzing political risk and key political figures with reference to economic implications for business
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| * | Researching claims and geographical and land use history
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Travel and recreation
| * | Planning and managing conventions, meeting, and other events
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| * | Collecting and analyzing information
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| * | Planning, directing, and guiding tours
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Utilities
| * | Reviewing local issues and concerns
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| * | Making policy and management studies
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| * | Providing information services
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| * | Performing historical analysis
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| * | Managing archives
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Industries in general
| * | Researching
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| * | Performing analysis studies
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| * | Writing public relations and educational materials
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| * | Writing corporate communications
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| * | Managing archives and information retrieval services
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| * | Documenting organizational history
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In the Public Sector |
Federal Government
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The Executive Branch
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Congress
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Federal Courts and Judicial Service
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Smithsonian Institution
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National Archives and records
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Library of Congress
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National Park Service
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Intelligence Services
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Foreign and Civil service
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Civil Service
| * | Studying current issues
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| * | Analyzing policy performance, long-range trends, etc.
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| * | Preserving and organizing institutional records
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| * | Editing public records and documents
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| * | Gathering and digesting information
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| * | Organizing and publishing bibliographic material
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| * | Serving on congressional and legislative staffs
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| * | Providing research assistance
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| * | Collecting and preserving records
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| * | Analyzing issues
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| * | Drafting studies, reports, and routine office correspondence
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| * | Providing assistance to constituents
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The foregoing list applies to state and local government as well
The military
| * | Serving in all components of the armed forces
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| * | Managing the museums and archival and records centers for all branches of the military
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| * | Conducting studies of various issues
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| * | Researching and writing institutional histories
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State Government
| * | Archives, libraries, and legislative reference bureaus
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| * | Museums, parks, and historic sites
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| * | Arts and humanities councils
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Municipal and County Government
| * | Municipal archives
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| * | Urban planner
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| * | Grant specialist
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| * | Historic preservation specialist
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| * | Research analyst
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