career

Can You Make a Career Out of Food History?

October 10th, 2010

Everyone knows the stereotype of historians … they’re dusty old fellows with patches on their jacket elbows who smell faintly of book mold and are forever squinting at something tiny…

When in rock history where you could start your rock career?

March 5th, 2010

If I can choose which era in rock history so that I could start my rock career, I would have belonged in the British Invasion period of the 1960s when bands…

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

February 28th, 2010

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,…