SUMMER 2024 INTERNSHIPS
Charleston, South Carolina
Collections and exhibitions
Terms The Intern needs to demonstrate the capability of working independently, possess strong oral and written communications skills along with organizational skills. Previous experience with archival research is helpful but not required. The candidate must have access to housing and transportation to the office and research repositories. The intern’s workspace will be in the main administrative offices for the Office of Historic Preservation, located in the Williams Ordinary at 17674 Main Street, Dumfries, VA 22026. Hybrid options may be available in consultation with the selected candidate, but in-person attendance at monthly Historical Commission meetings is required. This research project pays a stipend of $4,500 for not more than 300 hours.
Goals In light of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, the goal of this project is to enhance and complete existing historical information about Prince William County citizens’ role in the conflict. The majority of the project entails researching and creating a roster of Prince William County residents who fought in the American Revolution, as there is currently no existing comprehensive list. The final product will be both the completed roster and an associated annotated bibliography. Digital copies will be posted online and hard copies will be made available to the Ruth E. Lloyd Information Center (RELIC) through Prince William County Libraries.
Historical Commission at the August meeting. Attendance at and reporting to the Prince William County Historical Commission during its regularly scheduled monthly meeting is required. These meetings take place on the second Tuesday
of the month at 7:30 pm at 5 County Complex Court, Suite 210, Prince William, VA. The summer meeting dates are June 11, July 9, and August 13.
About The Prince William County Historical Commission is composed of 16 citizens appointed by the Board of County Supervisors. The Historical Commission advises the Board in its efforts to identify, preserve, protect and promote Prince William County's historical sites, artifacts, buildings and events. Members review land development applications and make recommendations regarding their impact on cultural resources; produce publications related to local history; provide input on the installation of historical highway markers; propose properties to be classified as County Registered Historic Sites; conduct tours; and award community service certificates.
Terms: The Special Collections department of the UVA Law Library seeks a graduate student or advanced undergraduate student to research and compile histories of UVA Law School student organizations from the school’s founding to the present. With a goal of documenting new stories and voices in our history, this research will lay the groundwork for future exhibits, oral histories, web projects, and archival guides related to student life at the Law School. This work will involve in-person archival research at UVA, as well as research and writing that could be done remotely or in designated project space at the Law Library. The intern must have strong skills in historical research and writing and enjoy working in a collaborative environment. This internship pays $20/hr.
Goals: The intern’s main responsibilities will be conducting historical research into UVA Law School student organizations and synthesizing this research into brief historical reports. The diversity of student groups that will be the focus of this research include moot court (est. 1830s), student affinity groups (historical and current; i.e. Women of Color, Libel Show, Voz Latina/LALO), legal journals (est. 1880s; there are currently 10 at the Law School), and Law School student government. The intern will work closely with Law Special Collections staff to plan archival research at the UVA Law Library and UVA’s Small Special Collections Library.
About Law Special Collections: The UVA School of Law was founded in 1819 and is the second-oldest continuously running law school in the United States. Law Special Collections is the institutional repository for the UVA School of Law and preserves and provides access to a diverse archive of legal history materials. Our collections include rare books, manuscripts, archival records and publications, and photographs. An important part of our mission is preserving, researching, and making accessible the history of the UVA School of Law.
Charleston, South Carolina
Collections and exhibitions
SUMMER 2022 INTERNSHIPS
Prince William, Virginia
Terms: In partnership with the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History, the Vicksburg National Military Park is seeking an undergraduate or a graduate intern with a background in nineteenth-century American history to work at the national park. Internship start and end dates will be determined by the NPS supervisor. This internship pays $10 an hour—$4,800 for the summer (40 hrs a week for 12 weeks, and includes housing).
About: Vicksburg National Military Park protects close to 2,000 acres in and around the city of Vicksburg, MS, commemorating the story of the siege of Vicksburg from May 18-July 4, 1863. Both Union and Confederate governments saw the vital importance in Vicksburg and its location for controlling the Mississippi River. Victory here gave the Union army control of the Mississippi River throughout the rest of the Civil War. The Military Park includes 1,325 historic monuments and markers, making it one of the largest collections of outdoor art in the world. The Military Park also tells the story of the occupation and post-war period of Reconstruction in Vicksburg. This is a unique time in the history of the park as it is in the initial stages of an expansion to manage new sites to better protect and interpret the larger Vicksburg Campaign.
Manassas, Virginia
Terms: In partnership with the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History, the Manassas National Battlefield Park is seeking an undergraduate or a graduate intern with a background in nineteenth-century American history to work at the national park. Internship start and end dates will be determined by the NPS supervisor. This internship pays $10 an hour—$4,800 for the summer (40 hrs a week for 12 weeks, and includes housing).
About: Manassas National Battlefield Park comprises approximately 5,000 acres and preserves the site of two major battles of the American Civil War – the First and Second Battles of Manassas (Bull Run). Among the park’s historic features are multiple 19th century structures, military and civilian cemeteries, and commemorative monuments. Areas of interpretive emphasis include: the military events surrounding the First and Second Battles of Manassas (1861 & 1862); how the two battles reflect the transformation of the Civil War in purpose, scale, and method; the experience of civilians, both free and enslaved; and the memorialization of the battlefield landscape.
SUMMER 2021 INTERNSHIPS
Historical education research, program development, and signage
Prince William, Virginia
One internship available
Outcome: The intern will prepare a work plan and review with county staff; conduct archival research, including primary source materials as well as secondary research materials, on services provided for the indigent in Prince William County; prepare a definition of “indigent” and an historic context or contexts; create a database with findings from archival research to determine any historical trends in who the County defined as indigent and how they were treated; prepare a written history for publication.
Terms: The Special Collections department of the UVA Law Library seeks a graduate student or advanced undergraduate student to conduct a shelf reading/inventory of our rare book collection, which includes about 12,000 items from the 15th to 19th centuries. Working with our Special Collections teams, the intern will systematically review a portion of this collection to make sure that all of the books that should be there are present. Using protocols established by projects such as Book Traces @ UVA, this process will capture information particular to each copy, such as signatures, gift information, unique markings, or other artifactual features. The intern will also assist in research to determine if some of our rare book copies were once part of UVA’s original Rotunda library, which new evidence suggests is likely. As a contributor to the Law Library’s 1828 Catalogue Project in this research, the intern will review books in our rare collection for known Rotunda markings. Previous experience with rare books or related bibliographic classwork preferred. Along the way, the intern will have time and encouragement to post about work and findings on the Law Library blog or social media platforms. The intern must have strong research and organizational skills and enjoy working in a collaborative environment. This internship can be adapted if a fully remote situation is required. This internship pays $15/hr for roughly 300 hours of work.
Manassas, Virginia
Terms: In partnership with the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History, the Manassas National Battlefield Park is seeking an undergraduate intern with a background in nineteenth-century American history to work at the national park. Internship start and end dates will be determined by the NPS supervisor. This internship pays $10 an hour—$4,800 for the summer (40 hrs a week for 12 weeks).
About the National Battlefield Park: Manassas National Battlefield Park comprises approximately 5,000 acres and preserves the site of two major battles of the American Civil War – the First and Second Battles of Manassas (Bull Run). Among the park’s historic features are multiple 19th century structures, military and civilian cemeteries, and commemorative monuments. Areas of interpretive emphasis include: the military events surrounding the First and Second Battles of Manassas (1861 & 1862); how the two battles reflect the transformation of the Civil War in purpose, scale, and method; the experience of civilians, both free and enslaved; and the memorialization of the battlefield landscape.
Goals: Duties will include sorting, arranging, analyzing, re-housing, and describing Civil War-era papers.
Outcome: Under the supervision of archival team members, the intern will be part of a major effort to process a significant group of Civil War-era manuscripts, with the goal of producing finding aids that will guide researchers to the materials.
Background: The Virginia Museum of History and Culture (formerly Virginia Historical Society) maintains a strong commitment to educational outreach, exhibitions, and other programming, but is perhaps best known for its research library and collections. Those collections include manuscripts (personal and family papers, business and organizational records), printed materials and rare books, and museum artifacts. A commitment to preservation of and access to its richest resources has led to an initiative to process these materials.
Summer 2020 Internships
Archival research, digital formatting, collection and content management
Charleston, South Carolina
One internship available
Terms: An undergraduate or graduate student with a particular interest in American art history. Background in art history, American studies, Historic Preservation or museum studies is required. Intern must provide own housing. This internship pays $7.25/hr, roughly $2,050 for the summer.
Goals: Primary responsibilities include professional documentary transcription (we will train first), proofreading, XML mark-up of digitized and transcribed documents, and writing of descriptive primary document-based essays.
Terms: The Library of Virginia seeks a graduate student intern to help create an online resource guide to Asian Pacific Islander resources at the Library. Intern must provide own transportation to and housing in Richmond. This internship pays $15/hr for graduate students, or roughly $4,500 for 300 hours of work.
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Terms: The Special Collections department of the UVA Law Library seeks a graduate student or advanced undergraduate student to help re-launch the Law School’s oral history program. Within the program’s broader goal of preserving the Law School’s institutional history, this internship will focus on interviews with women faculty, staff, and alumnae to expand the perspectives included in our archive and to coincide with the 2020 centennial of coeducation at the Law School. Previous experience with an oral history projects or related classwork preferred. The intern must have strong research and organizational skills and enjoy working in a collaborative environment. This internship pays $12.50/hr for undergraduates and $15/hr for graduate students.
Goals: Duties will include sorting, arranging, analyzing, re-housing, and describing Civil War-era papers.
Outcome: Under the supervision of archival team members, the intern will be part of a major effort to process a significant group of Civil War-era manuscripts, with the goal of producing finding aids that will guide researchers to the materials.
Background: The Virginia Museum of History and Culture (formerly Virginia Historical Society) maintains a strong commitment to educational outreach, exhibitions, and other programming, but is perhaps best known for its research library and collections. Those collections include manuscripts (personal and family papers, business and organizational records), printed materials and rare books, and museum artifacts. A commitment to preservation of and access to its richest resources has led to an initiative to process these materials.
Goals: The cemetery, a unique form of built landscape, offers a rich and largely unexplored site for documenting and interpreting the history of enslaved and free blacks in Charlottesville both before and after Emancipation. Founded during Reconstruction by the Daughters of Zion Society, a sororal organization, the private cemetery provided a dignified alternative to the segregated Oakwood Cemetery across the street; as such, it offers a unique framework for interpreting the history of the antebellum African Americans who founded self-help organizations and promoted African-American commerce, education, and entrepreneurship during Reconstruction. It also provides material for closer analysis of sororal African-American organizations, which have not received as much attention as their fraternal counterparts.
Goals: Duties will include sorting, arranging, analyzing, re-housing, and describing Civil War-era papers.
Outcome: Under the supervision of archival team members, the intern will be part of a major effort to process a significant group of Civil War-era manuscripts, with the goal of producing finding aids that will guide researchers to the materials.
Background: The Virginia Museum of History and Culture (formerly Virginia Historical Society) maintains a strong commitment to educational outreach, exhibitions, and other programming, but is perhaps best known for its research library and collections. Those collections include manuscripts (personal and family papers, business and organizational records), printed materials and rare books, and museum artifacts. A commitment to preservation of and access to its richest resources has led to an initiative to process these materials.
Summer 2019 Internships
Congratulations to our summer 2019 interns: Evan Bell, Margaret Davis, Gwen Dilworth, Shivani Dimri, Zach Dolack, Sally Duncan, Aldona Dye, Charlie Flynn, Kajsa Foskey, Kristen Graves, Trevor Hazelwood, Sarah Holzgrefe, Lucy Hopkins, Adam Jacobs, Michael Marrow, Andy McMahon, Emily Mellen, John Modica, Addie Patrick, Adam Rayburn, Claire Schweiker, Meghan Shinton, Lily Snodgrass, Audrey Van Winkle, Liezl Vergara.
Internships designated for undergraduates are paid between $7.25 and $10 an hour, and those specified for graduate students between $12.50 and $15 an hour for 300 hours of work between mid-May and mid-August; see internship listings for details. Graduates are eligible for all internships, but only those specified for graduate students pay at the higher level. Students who graduate in May 2019 are eligible for internships, and are paid as undergraduates.
For detailed descriptions of each internship, click on link below and scroll down to find internship listing.
Carr-Greer Family History Project POSITION FILLED
Charlottesville, Virginia
One internship available
Gibbes Museum of Art POSITION FILLED
Charleston, South Carolina
One internship available
Jefferson's University - The Early Life Project, 1819-1870 ALL POSITIONS FILLED
Charlottesville, Virginia
Four internships available
Monticello Department of Archaeology POSITION FILLED
Charlottesville, Virginia
One internship available
Monticello "Getting Word" oral history project POSITION FILLED
Charlottesville, Virginia
One internship available
One Shared Story BOTH POSITIONS FILLED
Charlottesville and Louisa County, Virginia
Two internships available
Prince William Ct Historic Preservation Division, oral history project POSITION FILLED
Charlottesville, Virginia
One internship available
Take Back the Archive POSITION FILLED
Charlottesville, Virginia
One internship available
UVA Law Library: Special Collections and Archives BOTH POSITIONS FILLED
Charlottesville, Virginia
Two internships available
UVA Nau Center for Civil War History ALL POSITIONS FILLED
Charlottesville, Virginia
Six internships available
UVA President's Commission on the Age of Segregation ALL POSITIONS FILLED
Charlottesville, Virginia
Four internships available
Virginia Museum of History and Culture BOTH POSITIONS FILLED
Richmond, Virginia
Two internships available
Summer 2018 Internships
Undergraduates are paid between $7.25 and $10 an hour, and graduate students between $12.50 and $15 an hour for 300 hours of work between mid-May and mid-August; see internship listings for details. Students who graduate in May 2018 are eligible for internships, and are paid as undergraduates.
Cornerstone Institute/Leadership on the Lawn
Charlottesville, Virginia
One internship available
Eastern Shore Museum Network - Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Charlottesville, Virginia, with travel to Eastern Shore
One internship available
Gibbes Museum of Art
Charleston, South Carolina
One internship available
Jefferson's University - The Early Life Project, 1819-1870
Charlottesville, Virginia
Three internships available
Library of Virginia
Richmond, Virginia
One internship available
Monticello Department of Archaeology
Charlottesville, Virginia
One internship available
Preservation Virginia
Charlottesville and Buckingham County, Virginia
Two internships available
Prince William County Historic Preservation Division
Northern Virginia
One internship available
Scottsville Museum and Historical Landmarks Foundation
Scottsville, Virginia
One internship available
UVA Law Library: Special Collections and Archives
Charlottesville, Virginia
Two internships available
UVA Nau Center for Civil War History
Charlottesville, Virginia
Five internships available
Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Richmond, Virginia
Two internships available
Summer 2017 Internships
Arthur J. Morris Law Library: Special Collections and Archives
Charlottesville, Va.
Two internships available
Gibbes Museum of Art
Charleston, South Carolina
One internship available
James Monroe's Highland
Charlottesville, Va.
Three internships available
Library of Virginia
Richmond, Va.
One internship available
John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History
University of Virginia
Four internships available, two with housing (Richmond and Fredericksburg)
Jefferson's University--The Early Life Project, 1819-1870 (JUEL)
University of Virginia
Three internships available
Take Back The Archive
Charlottesville, Va.
Two internships available
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Charlottesville and Danville, Va.
Two internships available, one with housing (Danville)
Virginia Historical Society
Richmond, Va.
Two internships available