History Internships and Off-Campus Study

Almost every year history majors pursue internships and off-campus study as close to home as the Carroll County Historical Society and as far away as Europe (through the Junior Year Abroad program).  During the last several years, students have carried out projects in Washington at the Library of Congress, the National Archives, and the United States Holocaust Museum, in Annapolis at the Maryland State Archives, in Baltimore at the Maryland Historical Society, in Westminster at The Historical Society of Carroll County, and in Carlisle, Pennsylvania at the U.S. Army War College Library.

Another way students can make use of off-campus experience is to place that experience into historical context by registering for independent studies.  For example, a student who was in Moscow at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union undertook a research project on the last years of the Soviet regime.  Another student wrote a history of the modern juvenile justice system in New Jersey as a result of working at a youth center during summer vacation.

Students who are interested in pursuing off-campus study should meet with their advisors in order to create a study proposal and plan research strategies.