Heather Cox Richardson Wants You to Study History - The New York Times - 0 views
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“Anybody who studies history learns two things: They learn to do research and they learn to write,” Richardson said. “The reason that matters now is that most people who are in college now are going to end up switching jobs a number of times in their careers.”
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What history will give you is the ability to pivot into the different ideas, the different fields, the different careers as they arise.”
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A historian will also know how to metabolize confounding situations, distill them to their essence and communicate that information to others
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