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Below is a link to and excerpt from a story that appeared in Inside Higher Ed summarizing a study carried out by the American Historical Association and reported in Perspectives on History. The comments are also of interest.
The AHA report, entitled "The History BA Since the Great Recession: The 2018 AHA Majors Report" by Benjamin Schmidt, can be found here:
https://www.historians.org/perspectives
The Vanishing History Major
New analysis of history-major data says the field has fallen to "new low." Can it be saved?
By Colleen Flaherty for Inside Higher Ed
November 27, 2018
"Data from the