As a field of inquiry, history studies human beings in the dimension of time. Because all things have a past, history shares with philosophy the claim of being the most broadly based and integrative of disciplines. It is interested in and contributes to knowledge in all fields.
People commonly assume that teaching is about the only thing that history majors go on to do.
It's true that history is required in primary and secondary schools everywhere and is studied in virtually all institutions of higher education. So there is a continuing, built-in demand for history teachers. Each year several graduating Centre history majors go off to teach in high schools or to pursue graduate studies in major universities leading to a college or university professorship. History, for example, is a highly popular major among future lawyers because of its reliance upon verbal and non-verbal evidence, its emphasis on understanding the range of human behavior and the operation of social and political institutions, and the training it gives in analytical writing. The same features serve well in business and banking.