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At Red Hill, the Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation, graduate student Tim Hack transcribed some of Patrick Henry’s account and ledger books documenting his plantation and business activities.

At the Fredericksburg-Spotsylvania National Military Park, history M.A. student Shaun Mooney helped document and analyze the late nineteenth-century Richardson House at Willis Hill. Shaun’s architectural analysis formed part of a report to the National Park Service on the historical significance and

At the Historic Lexington Foundation, Sarah Wilson completed a graduate internship that involved surveying a historic district of about 180 buildings. Sarah wrote architectural descriptions, photographed the district, and researched original ownership and building information.

Julie Herczeg interned in the Summer of 2005 at Old Fort Jackson in Savannah, Georgia. She worked as a costumed interpreter and a special events coordinator for a “Georgia Homefront Weekend,” which included demonstrations of Civil War homefront life and a Georgia women’s

  Rachel Reed interned at the archives of the George C. Marshall Foundation Library at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. In   addition to fulfilling numerous small research requests, Rachel processed and scanned photographs from the collection and created an online exhibit of

Amanda Scheffer undertook archaeological laboratory and field work for the Lost Towns Archaeology Project in Ann Arundel County, Maryland. Her main project was transcribing the Quaker Meeting Minutes for the Maryland Yearly Meeting.

Graduate History student Zachary Zuro’s summer internship at the New York City Police Museum required him to work closely with the artifact collections. Zach catalogued, assessed, photographed, and re-housed artifacts, and was also responsible for moving them to off-site storage.