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• Course descriptions for all History courses by searching the Course Catalog. You'll have to select HI (History) in “Step 2: Search by subject” in the menu.

• Job Search Advice from alumnus Tom Stanley, Senior Marketing Manager at UNC Health Care. Learn how to build your resume, execute your job search and prepare for an interview. Also see his talking points on The History Major’s 5 Portable Skills.
• Careers for History Majors: A Mini Guide from the American Historical Association.
• Constance Schulz, Page Putnam Miller, Aaron Mars, and Kevin Allen, Careers for Students of History, American Historical Association, 2002.
• “History is Not a Useless Major:  Fighting Myths with Data” by Paul B. Sturtevant, 2017.
• And finally, for data on how Humanities graduates earn as much over time as other disciplines, see “The State of the Humanities 2018:  Graduates in the Work Force and Beyond”.  The report compares Humanities graduates’ job status, earnings, and job satisfaction with those of graduates from engineering, business, and the sciences (including health professions). Overall, the message is that engineers earn more at first, but our majors catch up. 
• Planning to apply to Law School? Check out our brief guide. 

• Avoiding plagiarism in historical writing.
• Online tutorial from Indiana University on "How to Recognize Plagiarism" and avoid it in your writing.
• "How Writing Leads to Thinking (And not the Other Way Around)," by Lynn Hunt,  from the “Art of History” column of the February 2010 issue of Perspectives on History, a publication of the American Historical Association
• "Reading, Writing, and Research for History: A Guide for College Students," Patrick Rael, Bowdoin College. 
• History courses at NC State use the Chicago Style (also known as “Turabian”) for citation. Available guides for history students include:
  Jules Benjamin, A Student’s Guide to History, 12th edition (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2013).
  Mary Lynn Rampolla, A Pocket Guide for Writing in History (Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2009.
  William Kelleher Storey, Writing History: A Guide for Students, 5th edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).
  Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 8th  edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013).
• The Writing Resources Guide, NC State, D.H. Hill Library.  This set of links includes a sub-section on Humanities and a paper writing toolkit.
• NC State Writing and Speaking Tutorial Services, which works with students seeking to improve their writing