History Major.

06.01.01.

Karlis Berzins

Research paper in English IV

to Mrs Valery Hill.

History Major.

Controlling Purpose:In this paper one will find information about salaries, requirements to become a history professor in college.

I.Description.

   A.Respect of college teaching.

   B.Placement of colllege's.

   C.College professor.

II.Future employment.

   A.State department, Libary of Congress, National Archives and National Park Service.

   B.Versatile of historians - wide variety of jobs.

   C.Transfering data to electronic archives.

III.Requirements

  A.Curiosity and good historical background.

  B.History Major degree.

  C.Love of all kind of history.

  D.Good analyzing abilities.

IV.Earnings.

 A.Respect.

 B.Salaries.

History Major.

      History is one of the most important sciences, without it people would do the same mistakes again and again.History shows to humans where the problems were and how to change it.

      In this paper one will find information about salaries, requirements to become college history professor.

     American college professor's public role is not constrained by the physical boundaries of a campus, it extends to community in which the college is located.The professors are expected to be pillars of local literary societies, reading clubs and museums.in social and cultural milieu college teaching is very respected but it isn't a place for a people who want to gain wealth, it is something more like a way of life.

    Colleges were placed in small towns or even villages, because this kind of situation sheltered students from the temptations of Bohema and professors from the temptations of wealth and power.

    Starting from 17th and 18th century, American professors has a larger public role than their Europena counterparts.

   Special "American College System" dates back  to post - revolutionary generation, who reinvented the English and Scottish college experience to fit the needs of a secular and republican society, it meant not changing of curriculum, who was still largely focused on western classics, but the redefinition of faculty roles and responssibilities.

   To post-revolutionary time dates back to new "research model", which produced the first generation of American Phds, who in time succeeded their mentors, and finnaly diminished America's dependence on Europe.

    From post-revolutionary times to nowdays the numbers of college faculty has grown about hundred times(Lovett, Clara "American professors an society".).

    The biggest history major employer is federal government, just sometimes government renames historians as archivists , interpreters, resource managers or libarians.College and universities employ a big portion of historians.Historians mostly in colleges teach, write and do research.

   State department hires many historians every year, specially those with Phd degree.Many government agencies seeks the best historical talent available for work in managment field.

Big agencies with strong historical programs such as National Park Service, Libary of Congress and National Archives nowdays rename positions held by historians and call them libarians instead, but still thes positions are for people with history major.There will be plenty of jobs for historians in archives, to put them in electronic data format, which is easy accesiable by internet.

   Most of the openings for historians are listed in professional journals and most of the college history professors can give information about getting job in the field of history(Smock, Raymond "Where have all the historians gone".).

   Historians are very versatile, they can work a variety of professional jobs.Many history channels, when making new history shows asks opinions from many historians, because there can be a big difference in historians even from the same college, even people from the same faculty can have compeltelly different opinions(Grele, Ronald "Interview with Charles Maday Jr. of the History Channel".).

  In future the job market for history majors will expand, because of many retiring professors or teacher's who quit for better paying jobs.Phd degree is needed if historina wants an college teacher career, in High School level it has little importance(Miller, Jerry Personal interview.).

   To be a real historian you need to have a natural curiosity, and of course you need a good historical knowledge background.Today's historian, can't  be only one sided, he has to think outside of traditionalism, people in these days are not interested in ortodox history any more.Historians can research something so "trendy" as the private life of the Founding Fathers.

   Every day historian has to feel like this:he can watch Civil War Journal on History Channel fifty times in a row and still be able to see in it something new(Grele, Ronald "Interview with Charles Maday Jr. of the History Channel".).

   To become a historian you have to get an advanced degree in history, with bachelor's degree, you may find a job in historical research, but advancement opportunities will be limited(Winner, Frances, project director "Engineering, Science and Technology".).

   Being a college history professor, you get respect from others, especially from students, because those students want to be there, not like High School students who usually don't have big respect to the teacher(Miller, Jerry Personal interview.).

   Earnings of historians depend on their education and experience.Usually with bachelors degree salary is starting at 20000$ a year, if you have a master's degree salary start's at 30000$ a year.Senior college professors earn as high as 60000$ a year, but in private educational systems professors can earn as much as 100000$ a year(Winner, Frances, project director "Engineering, Science and Technology".).

   History is a very broad science, most of historians specialize in special time period.Historians analyze information to understand happenings in history.they get respect from others, from society, historians actively participate in social life.Future job market is growing, big government agencies are or will start hireing historians for archive putting in electronic databases.The most important requirement is history loving and curiosity.Senior historians can earn very good salaries.The main thing for good historian is the passion to history, if you have that you are already a historian.

Works Cited.

Miller, Jerry. Personal interview. 6. December 2000.                              

Grele J Ronald. Interview with Charles Maday Jr. "An Interview with Charles Maday Jr. of the History Channel."

Organization of American Historians. Online.

Internet. 6. december 2000.

www.oah.org/pubs/nl/2000nov/maday.html

Lovett, Clara."American professors and society".

Change.July-August 1993. pg. 26.

Expanded Academic ASAP. Online.

Infotrac.5. December 2000.

Winner, Frances, project director.

Engineering, Science, and Technology.

New York:Macmillan, 1999.7th Edition 13 vols.

124-126 6. December 2000.

Smock Raymond. Where have all the historians gone.

"Organization of American Historians." Online.

Internet. 6. December 2000.

www.oah.org/pubs/nl/2000nov/smock.html