Hello. I just answered a similar question last week asking what jobs are available to historians and I decided to talk from personal experience. I am a public librarian with my degrees in history and I run the local history center at my library.

I think the question you need to ask yourself is what is a historian?

Most people don't actually know. Many people wrongly assume it means it's a person who just knows a lot about history and memorizes stuff. This is not even close to what historians do.

There are several different routes historians can take for their jobs. The most prominent ones are academic historians. There are folks who work at academic institutions, usually universities and research history and usually have it published. These people typically hold PhDs, although academic librarians typically have a MA in history. Their primary purpose is to teach students, but they usually are required to study, research, and publish their findings in either books (by an academic publisher) or in an academic peer-reviewed journal (if you want to know more about this, let me know).

Activists and Archival historians also have jobs that include tons of research, but they usually spend much of their time helping outside people do research on areas of their own interest (like personal genealogies, local history, etc). As /u/Matthew37 pointed out, many large organizations like Disney, Apple, and many others hire archivists as well.

The other type of history tends to fall into the field known as Public History. These are were the bulk of the historian positions outside of universities exist. These positions are ones at museums and public history institutions (like the Smithsonian or National Parks Service). These positions tend to be much less research-based, and much more focused on helping the public engage with history. They tend to be the ones who design exhibits, signs, events, and all other things that happen at those institutions.

Please let me know what follow ups you have.

Several organizations hire historians, including the National Park Service (for example). One of the most well-known rangers in Yellowstone, for example, is historian Lee Whittlesey (who's written a ton of books about the history of the park). The Smithsonian hires historians, many larger organizations also hire historians (The Disney Corporation has a staff of historians and archivists).

Really it depends on what you want to do with history. You can teach, you can try for something in a museum and an archives, you can try to become a history writer. History is also used as a platform for other professions, such as political science and law, because of the document analysis skills you learn. Any place that does anything with history, even if just their own history, has a place for a historian.

It's a surprisingly flexible degree.