Employment Opportunities: Among the resources listing job opportunities outside the academy are:

Museum jobs: The American Association of Museums, Aviso, http://www.aam-us.org

Jobs at historical societies: The American Association for State and Local History, Dispatch, http://www.aaslh.org

Jobs in the federal government: Office of Personnel Management, http://www.usajobs.opm.gov. Many (but not all) history positions are classified under the "GS-170 Historian" job classifications.

Jobs in state and local government: Check the web sites of individual states and cities. A list of links can be found at http://www.statejobs.com

Archives jobs: Society of American Archivists, Employment Bulletin, http://www.archivists.org

The National Council on Public History (NCPH) http://www.ncph.org, and the Society for History in the Federal Government, http://www.shfg.org, also post employment advertisements.

For further information about public history employment, see "The Humanities at Work," the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, http://www.woodrow.org/phd and "Careers for Students of History," a joint publication of the American Historical Association, the NCPH, and the faculty and students of the Public History Program at the University of South Carolina. See www. historians.org/pubs for ordering information.

Also visit the American Historical Association's website on public history at: www.historians.org/governance/tfph/PublicHistory/Employment.htm