History Major - Internship Ideas

<p>Hello</p>

<p>I am a history major. I am trying to come up with ideas for an internship as a hisory major. At my school, internships are not provided for students majoring in history, therefore we have to run ideas by our department to get them approved. If anyone has creative ideas to share with me to get me started brain storming, I would greatly appreciate it.</p>

<p>Get involved in organizing a reenactment?
Museums?</p>

<p>Museums in my community take a couple of interns, as far as I know. You could try interning for the historical society.</p>

<p>Just brainstorming…</p>

<p>Archiving the documents on the history of a local company, school, institution, church, town, etc. and writing a history?? Doing a history of one of the departments in your college/university??</p>

<p>Recording and collecting oral histories, e.g., from veterans, others who participated in/witnessed a past important event, or a local ethnic or religious group??</p>

<p>Collecting the relevant items and creating an historical exhbit at a library, city hall, etc.??</p>

<p>Doing an online history exhibit??</p>

<p>Doing an internet history sourcebook with links to public domain documents, photos, other sites relevant to some topic, area, event (e.g., the Internet Medieveal Hisory Sourcebook)??</p>

<p>Doing a documentary film (a la Ken Burns)??</p>

<p>Writing a history unit for elementary or secondary school level (could be multi-media)??</p>

<p>Organizing a “history day” in your town?? </p>

<p>Organizing a history lecture series (e.g., local authors/historians)??</p>

<p>Documenting local history monuments (photos, who was the sculptor, etc.) in your local area or monuments in a broader area on a particular historical figure (e.g., all the George Washington statues in a particular state)??</p>

<p>Working at a museum, library/archive, historical house, battlefield, etc.??</p>

<p>Creating a guidebook/brochure to local history??</p>

<p>Reviewing local school district’s history textbooks for accuracy, balance, etc.??</p>