Internships

The internship is a vital component to our public history program. It provides hands-on training in a real-world setting.

Funded Internships

Thanks to the Guilbeau Charitable Trust, the MA program in History offers resources to students to offset interns' travel, lodging, and other expenses.

Our public history students complete their required internships across the country. Recent interns have worked at the

• Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum
• California Trail Historic Interpretive Center
• Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana
• Hearst San Simeon State Park
• LBJ National Historical Park
• Levine Museum of the New South
• Louisiana Division of Historic Preservation
• Louisiana Military Museum
• Mystic Seaport Museum
• National Archives and Records Administration
• National World War II Museum
• New Orleans Jazz Museum
• New Orleans Notarial Archives
• Smithsonian Archives of American Art
• Smithsonian National Museum of American History
• South Dakota State Historic Preservation Office
• Spokane Historic Preservation Office
• Stonewall National Museum, Archives, & Library.
• Tabasco Corporate Archives
• Texas State Historical Association
• The Historic New Orleans Collection
• The Parthenon
•  United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

For more information, contact our Director of Public History, Dr. Ian Beamish.