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Internships & After Graduation

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Internships

Grove City College history students intern at a wide variety of museums, historical sites, businesses, and not-for-profit organizations. Recent internships include:
 
  • Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
  • Flagship Niagara
  • Fort Pitt Museum
  • Harper’s Ferry
  • Heinz History Center
  • Old Sturbridge Village
  • The Pennsylvania State Archives
  • The Smithsonian
  • Library of Congress
  • Archaeological work in Italy, Greece, Macedonia, and Tunisia
  • National Center for Public Policy Research
  • The Heritage Foundation
  • Pennsylvania Family Institute
Grove City College history students gain real world experience through internships. Below are testimonials from current students in the history program:
 

After Graduation

Some of our recent history graduates are pursuing their passions in roles such as:

  • Program Associate – International Republican Institute (IRI)
  • Collections Associate – Connecticut Historical Society
  • Public History Consultant – The Free-Range Historian
  • Columnist – Western Pennsylvania History Magazine
  • History Teacher – Great Hearts Academy, San Antonio, Texas
  • Field Educator – Yellowstone National Park
  • Coin Archivist – Yale University
  • Medical Archivist – Johns Hopkins University
  • Academic Director – Seven Oaks Classical Academy, Bloomington, Ind.

Meanwhile, many students choose to continue their studies at competitive professional and graduate programs. Recent graduates have been admitted to programs at:

  • The University of Chicago
  • University of Notre Dame
  • Baylor University
  • University of Kentucky
  • University of Tennessee
  • University of Florida
  • University of Kansas
  • The University of Edinburgh
  • UCLA
  • Penn State
  • Yale University
  • Kent State University
  • The George Washington University
  • Duquesne University
  • George Mason University
  • The Catholic University of America
  • University of South Carolina
  • Rutgers University
  • Queen's University Belfast
  • The Cooperstown Graduate Program
  • University of Virginia School of Law
  • NYU School of Law
  • Maurer School of Law at Indiana University Bloomington
  • Westminster Theological Seminary

Graduates with a degree in History with a secondary education certification are equipped with the pedagogical, intellectual, and professional tools needed to plan, assess, and adapt history or social studies instruction to middle and high school students with different learning styles and capabilities in various ethnic settings and socioeconomic groups.