In my experience, if you're actually pursuing a job that will use your history degree, teaching is often an inevitable by-product. You don't need to be a professor as your primary profession, but most schools won't fund research or other work without a commitment to teach at least a small amount.

The best example I can think of is just research offices at Universities. This usually involves some teaching, but many of these offices can be their own venture and gain outside funding. I worked for a few years at an Oral History research office where we had enough outside funding to hire research staff who only taught because they wanted to. The job involved traveling around the region, collecting stories and artifacts from various people, as well as creating teaching tools for both grade school and college teachers based on local history. The Director of my office made decent money publishing books based on our work as well.

To some extent, similar jobs exist in private sector think tanks, but I am way less informed about those. Typically, you have to be a respected professor before those opportunities exist anyway.

A team of us from /r/AskHistorians did an AMA about history jobs in /r/teenagers. It's a couple of years old now, but it might give you some ideas!

https://www.reddit.com/r/teenagers/comments/1lwt7a/history_jobs_ama_were_15_people_who_have_jobs/