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EXTERNAL INTERNSHIPS:
The Gilder Lehrman History Scholars Program is a competitive summer scholarship program in American history for outstanding college sophomores and juniors.
National Council for Preservation Education
The Student Conservation Association
For a listing of internships at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, mostly unpaid, see Smithsonian Internship Opportunities.
S.C. INTERNSHIPS:
Governor Mark Sanford's Office
Office of SC Lieutenant Governor
Secretary of State
State Superintendent of Education
Commissioner of Agriculture
Link to listing of SC Statewide Political Parties and Organizations
SC Government Page
SC Legislature Online
The Johnson Space Center Oral History Project paid summer internships
Student Conservation Association
The National Trust for Historic Preservation summer internship
Summer jobs at Colonial Williamsburg
Naval Historical Center and Navy Museum summer internships
Seasonal employment at Mount Vernon DC.
Unpaid internships in archaeology at Historic Alexandria VA.
Summer internships in museum studies at Mystic Seaport CT.
Internships at the Margaret Sanger Papers NYC.
Civil Rights related opportunities.
HISTORY 496 Academic FIELD INTERNSHIP APPLICATION FORMS
CURRENT Local Listings:
MOH Museum at Patriots Point:
Intern needed for 2008-09 Fall, Spring or Summer
Congressional Medal of Honor Society Archives
Contact: Laura Jowdy, Archivist
843-884-8862
Contact: Nick Butler
...see more
Edisto Island Historic Preservation Society intern during the summer, fall or spring terms.
Contact: Gretchen M. Smith, Director
(843) 869-1954
The South Carolina Historical Society
Fireproof Building
100 Meeting Street
Contact:
843-723-3225, ext. 21
Internship at MUSC archives...
The Charleston Library Society:
723-9912.
164 King Street
Charleston, SC 29401
LOCAL PAID JOB LISTINGS:
South Carolina Historical Society...
Year round museum housekeeper
Contact:
Virginia Mizel, Museum Director at Edmondston Alston House, 722-7171.
LOCAL VENUES for internships:
Avery Research Institute
Charleston Museum
Preservation Society
Fort Sumter
Patriots Point
South Carolina Historical Society
Charleston African American Museum
City of Charleston Records
Drayton Hall
Historic Charleston Foundation
Karpeles Manuscript Foundation
Magnolia Plantation
Middleton Plantation
Special Collections, College of Charleston Library
Waring Historical Library, MUSC
Charlestowne Landing State Historic Site
Edmondston Alston House
INTERNSHIPS are designed to provide an opportunity to pursue a research topic in the context of an experiential learning situation—in a historical organization or foundation in the area.
PREREQUISITES are HIST 101–102 or 103–104, juniors or seniors in good academic standing, and permission of department.
