While a posting date is included with each entry, most of the organizations listed below have an ongoing interest in attracting talented students as interns. For more information on becoming an intern, contact:

Dr. Mark Souther
Department of History
Cleveland State University
2121 Euclid Avenue
Rhodes Tower 1904
Cleveland, OH 44115
(216) 687-3970
m.souther@csuohio.edu

Bedford Historical Society (Bedford, OH)
Bedford Historical Society, located twenty minutes southeast of Cleveland, offers a variety of projects suitable for qualified interns with an interest in the history of the town of Bedford. The historical society envisions interns serving for a semester as either an assistant curator, library manager, archival researcher, videographer, or heritage tourism marketing researcher.

Cleveland City Council Archives (Cleveland, OH)
The Cleveland City Council Archives, located at 601 Lakeside Avenue, seeks interns for a variety of projects, including: inventorying and creating finding aids for collections of drawings, correspondence, reports, and ordinances from much of the 20th century; indexing photos in the Building and Housing Department collection; and updating an existing index of street name changes since 1905. In addition to working on one of these projects, each intern would assist in responding to day-to-day public requests for information. An internship with the City Council Archives would give the interested student invaluable experience in exploring the career of Archivist.

Cleveland Hungarian Heritage Museum (Cleveland, OH)
The Cleveland Hungarian Heritage Museum, located in the Galleria at Erieview in downtown Cleveland, is pleased to announce an internship that would involve conducting an oral history project focusing on Hungarian immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Cleveland area. Ability to speak Hungarian is especially desirable but not necessary. The museum can also offer other projects for students interested in learning more about the history of Hungarian immigrants.

Cleveland Metroparks (Cleveland, OH & vicinity)
Metroparks needs interns to assist in researching various aspects of the early history of the land that now encompasses the “Emerald Necklace.” It also welcomes interns to receive training in tour guiding for its Voyageur Canoe program (summers only), in which historical interpreters recount the history of the region’s early settlers while participants paddle the canoe on Hinckley Lake in Summit County.

Cleveland Public Library (Cleveland, OH)
The Department of History at Cleveland Public Library, located on Superior Avenue in downtown Cleveland, invites applicants for an internship to create finding aids for various collections and improve information on its web site and in its print brochures. Areas in which a student might work include maps, local history, and genealogy.

Cuyahoga County Archives (Cleveland, OH) Located in two historic buildings in Ohio City on Cleveland’s Near West Side, the Cuyahoga County Archives welcomes interns to assist in processing collections pertaining to various aspects of Cuyahoga County history.

Dunham Tavern Museum (Cleveland, OH)
Located on Cleveland’s East Side, Dunham Tavern is the oldest surviving structure in the city. The museum, entirely volunteer-run, seeks an intern to assist in researching the tavern’s history and/or collections, organizing its records, providing information to its docents, and coordinating its resource materials.

Euclid Landmark Commission (Euclid, OH)
The Euclid Landmark Commission seeks a graduate student or advanced undergraduate intern to build projects around one of several collections of primary sources relating to the history of Euclid Township, which at one time included not only the city of Euclid but extended as far as Cleveland Heights and Beachwood. One collection, an inventory of 18th-20th century burials at Euclid Cemetery, offers the student possibilities to construct a research project on the demographics and social history of the community. The Commission, which is associated with the Euclid Historical Society, is in the early planning stages for a bicentennial celebration of Euclid Township in 2009. The student’s work would not only offer a research opportunity but also the chance to be involved in a project that will further the Commission’s programming goals. The intern would be based at the Euclid Historical Museum but would spend considerable time in various libraries and archives as well.

Lakewood Historical Society (Lakewood, OH)
The Lakewood Historical Society needs an intern to assist with research to support new exhibits.

Ohio & Erie National Heritage Canalway (Cuyahoga Heights, OH)

Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens (Akron, OH)
Stan Hywet, a 60,000-square-foot Tudor Revival estate located outside Akron, was the home of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company co-founder F. A. Seiberling before becoming a historic house museum. The museum welcomes interns who are interested in gaining curatorial, tour guiding, archival, and/or museum education experience. The intern would be introduced to the many considerations that arise as a historic site prepares to present its story to the public.

S.S. William G. Mather Museum (Cleveland, OH)
Periodically the Mather Museum seeks interns for docent training. In addition to giving tours, the intern would learn various historical interpretation techniques and would contribute to improving the process of docent training and interpretive programming at the museum.

Tremont West Development Corporation (Cleveland, OH)
Tremont West Development Corporation, a non-profit organization, continues to research the history of the Tremont neighborhood in the interest of historic preservation and community development. The TWDC needs interns to expand its collection of oral histories, conduct research to expand its historic property inventory, conduct independent research on various aspects of Tremont, and/or participate in a series of public meetings with Tremont residents. The intern would be based in TWDC’s offices at 2190 Professor Street and would learn the day-to-day operations of the organization but would also spend considerable time at various local archives.

West Creek Preservation Committee (Parma, OH)
The West Creek Preservation Committee operates the Henninger House, the oldest house in Parma and a unit of the Ohio Canal Heritage Corridor. The organization would like to conduct oral interviews of surviving family from whom it purchased the Henninger property and also sort through many personal letters and artifacts collected from the house when purchased. The organization would also use the intern to help in identifying restoration funding and writing grants to assist with that. The intern would also work with Jonathan Sandvick Architects to help complete a feasibility study and site assessment for a canal transportation museum/visitor information center/ and trailhead on the West Creek Greenway.

Western Reserve Historical Society (Cleveland, OH)
WRHS, located in University Circle, is the largest history museum in northern Ohio and one of the leading historical societies in the United States. Possible internships include processing new collections, including holdings in African American, Irish American, Jewish, automotive, sports (baseball), and steel industry (LTV Steel) history; assisting in the museum’s educational programming, including working with educational outreach in area schools; and researching roles for Timesliders, a first-person interpretation/historical theater initiative sponsored by WRHS.

Western Reserve Fire Museum at Cleveland, Inc. (Cleveland, OH)
The Fire Museum, a 501(3)(c) organization located in the Gateway District of downtown Cleveland, needs an intern to assist in the creation of a new firefighting history exhibit detailing the history of Cleveland firefighting, fire education, and fire safety.