Historians usually specialize in one area. The field might be social, intellectual, political, or diplomatic history. Biographers collect and write down a person's life history. Genealogists trace family histories. Other historians help study and preserve items in archives.
Some historians try to keep historic buildings and sites from changing.
Historians is a specialty of the CIS occupation Social Scientists . For more information, see the Social Scientists occupation. Historians is in the Legal, Social, and Recreation Services Career Cluster.