Why Study History
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With a BA in history, a student can teach at the secondary level, pursue a law degree, attend graduate school for the Masters in Arts or the PhD, or can work in a variety of fields including editing, government, and public relations. The Office of Career Services at Roosevelt is able to help the history major pursue employment opportunities. In these as well as other areas, the history faculty actively encourages and promotes a variety of scholarly pursuits for its students, including conferences, fellowship and scholarship opportunities. Roosevelt is proud of its Kappa Upsilon chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honors society, which is active in sponsoring historical-related events for all members of the Roosevelt community. Faculty actively encourage and support student participation in a number of off-campus scholarly pursuits, including a special honors seminar at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and any number of academic conferences such as the Social Science History conference and Phi Alpha Theta sponsored conferences. Phi Alpha Theta also sponsors a journal, The Delano, which publishes scholarly work done by Roosevelt University students as well as other students from other universities.

The History faculty invites you to contact them to discuss the program. The program offers a wide range of courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, ranging from surveys of world history to specialized courses on American urban history and twentieth century Europe. Graduate students may choose from a variety of fields that span several eras and topics, within American, European, and world history. In the past, students have also specialized in Holocaust studies and the history of women. Graduate students have the option of writing a thesis with recent topics covering gender and the Holocaust, the AFL/CIO and the Vietnam War, small communities and the Great Depression, and gender and journalism at the Chicago Tribune.

Roosevelt History Alumni includes many historians who have made important contributions to the field of history. Among Roosevelt's many distinguished graduates are: Harold Woodman, a chair of the history department at Purdue University; Loren Baritz, a chancellor of the CUNY system; Darlene Clark Hine, current president of the OAH; Arthur Mendel, former Russian historian at Michigan and the first Richard J. Hooker award winner; and Sue Levine, history professor at University of Illinois at Chicago.

• http://www.historians.org/pubs/free/whystudyhistory.htm
• http://history.hanover.edu/why.html
• http://www.kwc.edu/academic/history/whyhist.htm
• http://www.historyguide.org/guide/guide.html

Careers in History