Out of a train-wreck curiosity about what's been happening to the historical
profession, I've been watching the numbers on tenure-track hiring as posted on
H-Net, one of the major venues for listing history jobs.
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I wrote this year's report on history majors for the American Historical Association's
magazine,
Perspectives on History; it takes a medium term view of at
the significant hit the history major has taken since the 2008
financial crisis. You can read it
here.
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I put up a new post at Sapping Attention about

. In short, it's been bad enough to make me recant earlier statements of mine about the long-term health of the humanities discipline.
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