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The Plan B Career in History

One of the most influential historians in the US dropped out of grad school to take care of her grandmothers. Susan Ferber, executive editor for American and world history at Oxford University Press, writes about turning Plan B into a successful non-academic career.

 

For more on alternative careers in History and our need to find better ways to train historians more broadly, take a look a at this statement by the President of the American Historical Association and the editor of the American Historical Review.

 

Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2012

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