How do they match: Historians

  • Medical Historian
  • Medication Historian
  • Health Historian
  • Oral Historian

  • Research, analyze, record, and interpret the past as recorded in sources, such as government and institutional records, newspapers and other periodicals, photographs, interviews, films, electronic media, and unpublished manuscripts, such as personal diaries and letters.

  • Conduct historical research, and publish or present findings and theories.
  • Coordinate activities of workers engaged in cataloging and filing materials.
  • Edit historical society publications.
  • Interview people to gather information about historical events and to record oral histories.
  • Organize information for publication and for other means of dissemination, such as via storage media or the Internet.
  • Prepare publications and exhibits, or review those prepared by others, to ensure their historical accuracy.
  • Present historical accounts in terms of individuals or social, ethnic, political, economic, or geographic groupings.
  • Research and prepare manuscripts in support of public programming and the development of exhibits at historic sites, museums, libraries, and archives.
  • Trace historical development in a particular field, such as social, cultural, political, or diplomatic history.

  • Instruct college students in social sciences or humanities disciplines.