History majors score well on the LSAT (~157 median) and graduate with strong reading and writing skills. Firms and grad schools respect the degree. History + law school is a classic combination. History + MBA, journalism, or policy-school pivot is also common. The research and writing skills transfer to nearly any white-collar field.

"Historian" is a tiny profession — about 3,100 nationwide at $74k, growing slowly. Tenure-track history professorships are among the hardest academic jobs to get — the academic market has been bad for 20+ years and is getting worse. K-12 history teaching ($65k) is the main direct path. Without a grad-school plan, the degree is flexible but doesn't point at a job.

Law school — history is among the top LSAT-score majors. Big-law starts $225k. Management consulting and strategy roles at MBB hire liberal-arts majors aggressively ($150–200k starting at MBB post-MBA). Tech companies hire history PhDs for research, strategy, comms, and policy ($100–180k). Journalism and publishing pay less but hire history graduates steadily.

AI accelerates research and drafting — literature review, archival search, summarization. Generic explainer and educational writing are exposed. What stays — archival expertise, analytical writing, legal and policy reasoning, teaching, and public history that requires specialized knowledge. History is among the more AI-resistant humanities because the analytical skill (arguing with evidence) is the point.