Really? History majors can just read and write and nothing else? Okay.
@neela1 , I have to address this.
There is so much in our politics, culture, and everyday living that is based on historical context. I can’t begin to imagine, nor would I want to, a time when the powers that be decide no one needs to learn anything about history. The Holocaust, slavery, Imperialism, the Vietnam war, the Arab Spring, and on and on. We are doomed to repeat mistakes of the past without it, and there is no question that so much culture that would be vastly different if we hadn’t learned from history and incorporated that into our everyday understanding of life.
That applies to work too. Sex, racial, and religious discrimination are only a few aspects to which history applies. People need to understand history to form policy, and so much more.
It’s absurd to say that a history major just reads and writes and has no other useful skills.