How can I make history a meaningful career? How can activism fit in with history?

[dammeinmarrtin]

I really enjoy history and would love to have a more scholarly career. However, it bothers me that a job history doesn't really imply a shaping and changing of the future, while I would like to have a more meaningful effect in working towards positive change. What are your opinions on the relevance of history and how it can be meaningful? Are there are any careers you can think of that would combine history and activism? (I am also not so much interested in studying activism)

[MilkmanofHumanKindness]

Howard Zinn. Historian and a great activist. A part of History is reclaiming and uncovering wwhat really happened in the past, and this can be extremely liberating for many groups.

[Invader Zim]

spam:

http://www.revleft.com/vb/can-make-history-t139408/index.html

[Jimmie Higgins]

spam:Wow, strange!

[Ned Kelly]

Weird.

[Paulappaul]

Both users are spam. Their signatures both link to crap.

[DenisDenis]

i think being a history teacher is being very activist! Here in belgium all history teachers i
had were communist or had socialist sypathies, it's because of them i got in touch with
communism, so i think teachers have a great audience to spread the word to!

[Lenina Rosenweg]

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[stella2010]

I really enjoy history and would love to have a more scholarly career. However, it bothers me that a job history doesn't really imply a shaping and changing of the future, while I would like to have a more meaningful effect in working towards positive change. What are your opinions on the relevance of history and how it can be meaningful? Are there are any careers you can think of that would combine history and activism? (I am also not so much interested in studying activism)

These are all areas that your sort of person could work
as a part of or independently.



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