At the Library of Congress American Folklife Center, Ellen Donnelly worked on the Veteran’s History Project which is collecting, archiving, and preserving the stories and experiences of American veterans from WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf Wars.
At Belle Grove Plantation, history graduate student Peggy Dillard produced a guide for the Furnishings and Collection Committee to help refurnish the interior of the mansion to match as closely as possible the Hite family’s early 19th-century period of occupancy. As
Andrew Robarge interned at the CIA Museum which is housed within the headquarters of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in Washington, DC, and is thus not open to the public.
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.
Jennifer Miller, an undergraduate SMAD major with an interest in history, interned with the South Atlantic Humanities Center at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities in Charlottesville, Virginia. Jennifer combined her history and computer skills to contribute design and content to the Center’s
Morgan Pierce interned at the Glen Burnie House of the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley where he gained hands-on experience in collections management, handling and cataloging museum artifacts, and stabilizing historic objects.
Jeff Brundage interned with the Museum Management section of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, where he was able to combine his history skills with his interest in learning to manage a large organization.
Uyen Ta, undergraduate History major and Asian studies minor, interned with the United States Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute in Arlington, Virginia, where she used her history skills to research and write two papers—one on China’s relations with Southeast Asian nations
At the Smithsonian Institution Women’s Council in Washington, DC, Kristen Lowe completed an internship in conjunction with the Political Science Department’s Washington International Semester Program. She researched and developed information and outreach materials on women’s history globally, women in film, and relevant DC-area
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
