{"id":26844,"date":"2025-05-20T15:04:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?page_id=26844"},"modified":"2025-05-20T15:04:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:04:47","slug":"hist-4916c-the-business-of-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/hist-4916c-the-business-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"HIST 4916C: The Business of History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        HIST 4916C: The Business of History\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HIST 4916C: The Business of History<br>Winter 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Instructor: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/cu-people\/shawn-graham\/\">Professor Shawn Graham<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your Historical Training as Entrepreneurial Edge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This public history seminar explores the business <em>of<\/em> history through conversations with people whose business <em>is<\/em> history. We\u2019ll explore various sectors where \u2018history\u2019 is a business plan, a source of content, or a way of life. Guests in the seminar come from the museum sector, professional research firms, tourism, and development. You will draw from these examples, these conversations, these opportunities, to develop your own plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When <em>that<\/em> person smirks and asks you \u2018what are you gonna do with a history degree, anyway\u2019\u2026 show \u2019em <em>this<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIST 4916C: The Business of HistoryWinter 2026 Instructor: Professor Shawn Graham Your Historical Training as Entrepreneurial Edge This public history seminar explores the business of history through conversations with people whose business is history. We\u2019ll explore various sectors where \u2018history\u2019 is a business plan, a source of content, or a way of life. Guests in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[303],"class_list":["post-26844","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","cu_page_type-general"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26845,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26844\/revisions\/26845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=26844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}