The Public History Initiative
University of California, Los Angeles
Apply for HistoryCorps! Our next intake will be for Fall Quarter 2024.
If you are a junior or senior history major, you might consider pursuing an internship. HistoryCorps is the history department’s internship program. We place students with community partners throughout LA, including museums, archives and K-12 schools. Opportunities are available every quarter. See the HistoryCorps page for more information.
Applications for fall will open in June, during fall enrollment.
The Public History Initiative trains undergraduate students to be active participants in researching and communicating history. Through hands-on internships, research-focused courses, and collaboration with community partners, students learn to communicate with broad audiences and apply their historical knowledge outside of the university.
We produce cutting-edge public history. Our work focuses on evidence-based and community-informed research and outreach.
We contribute to history education. Through the National Center for History in the Schools, we collaborate with K-12 educators to get the most recent history research into school classrooms.