We match students with full-time, fully paid summer internships reserved for Washington College undergraduates at an array of leading cultural institutions and nonprofits. House of Representatives, and many others. Quite a few of our past recipients have been hired upon graduation at the places where they interned. Students from all majors are encouraged to apply. Photo: Hannah Flayhart '22 was a conservation education intern at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Md in the summer of Educating visitors inside the dolphin exhibit was just one of her duties during her experience.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D. The Explore America Summer Internship Program formerly known as Comegys Bight provides Washington College students with unique opportunities to integrate their academic work with real-world practice, resulting in experiences that often alter their life paths. Click here to read, see, and hear see more about our interns' past adventures. The 29 Washington College students who made up the Explore America Summer Internship cohort represented 17 majors and came from three class years at the College.
Twenty-six partner sites will host students in , in a variety of different formats: remote, hybrid, and in-person. This summer internship is an opportunity to learn more about archival research, digitization, and digital scholarship while gaining hands-on experience developing a digital humanities project in a research library setting. Archival collections that reveal the story of how the Revolution unfolded in that most revolutionary of cities are largely hidden.
While historic sites can be visited, the personal diaries, correspondence, broadsides, and business and court documents documenting the conflicted feelings of the women and men who lived through the tumultuous revolution cannot be easily found online. Revolutionary City brings together collections scattered across multiple archives, reuniting manuscript and print materials that have been separated, in some cases, for centuries.
Institutional choices about collection organization and cataloging privilege elite white families, rendering invisible many more, especially people of color, with whom their lives were intertwined.
