The Historian's Job Search Database: Helping Historians Find Employment

The life of a historian is difficult,
a historian’s job search should not be.

At The Life of a Historian, we know the job search as a historian is hard. And finding employment as a historian that checks all of our boxes is damn near impossible.

To worsen matters, there appears to be a scarcity of quality job search resources and/or databases available for historians. Consequently, the search for the ideal job is akin to finding the needle in the haystack.

If not the needle, what about the haystack?

Finding employment as a historian should not be an obstacle that prevents us from living and enjoying a life of history.

For this reason, The Life of a Historian created a Historian’s Job Search Database.

Our Historian’s Job Search Database connects you to history and history-related job postings/career opportunities, job boards, and job search resources from around the web. The database even includes links to employment or career opportunity webpages of private research companies and consulting firms.*

The Historian’s Job Search Database is a never ending project. And one, The Life of a Historian hopes to establish as the premier job search hub for historians looking for the job or career they desire and justly deserve.

How it all works:
Navigating the Historian’s Job Search Database

The Historian’s Job Search Database currently has four sections; Academic, Government (Federal and State), Non-Profit, For-Profit, and Fellowship, Internship, Volunteer, and National & International Service Opportunities. Within each section, you will find an alphabetized list of associations, organizations, state governments and federal agencies, academic institutions, and companies with a link to their respective employment webpage or job board.

For simplicity, the Historian’s Job Search Database uses either Job Postings/Career Opportunities or Job Board to illustrate what a particular association, organization, state government or federal agency, academic institution, or company offers on their website.

Job Postings/Career Opportunities

Employment opportunities specifically for that association, organization, state government or federal agency, academic institution, or company

Job Board

Listing of employment opportunities for multiple associations, organizations, state governments and/or federal agencies, academic institutions, and/or companies

Based on the prospective job listings and employment opportunities provided on a webpage, we categorized Job Postings/Career Opportunities and Job Boards as Academic, Government (Federal and State), Non-Profit, and/or For-Profit.**

Instead of Job Postings/Career Opportunities and Job Board, the Fellowship, Internship, Volunteer, and National & International Service Opportunities section uses Fellowship Opportunities, Internship Opportunities, Volunteer Opportunities, and/or a combination of each as a descriptor.

Just click on the links below to access a Job Posting/Career Opportunity and/or Job Board.