In what ways do you feel your major in history helped to prepare you for graduate study and/or your current career?

I feel like the broad range of history courses that I had to take as a history major gave me a really good foundation for entering a history graduate program. Even though I didn’t have a master’s before starting my PhD, I’ve never felt like I’m less knowledgeable than my peers who have a master’s. It’s felt more like we all have different expertise in specific areas of history, and we bring those different backgrounds together in our current courses.

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