Our alumni represent our program well through employment at the North Carolina Museum of History, the New York Public Library, the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, Death Valley National Monument, the Kentucky Derby Museum, the Harriet Tubman National Historic Monument, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library, the Scheile Museum of Natural History, the Jewish Historical Society, Yale University Manuscripts and Archives, the Virginia Air and Space Museum, the North Carolina Historical Review, the Maryland Historical Society, the Museum of African American History of Boston, the Woodstock (N.Y.) Historical Society, and the National Storytelling Association, among hundreds of other institutions.<br><br>The program requires thirty-six hours of course work, one-third of the hours falling in historical studies, the rest in public history classes, including innovative courses in archival and special collections management, paper conservation, records management, documentary editing, material culture, and museum studies. A thesis is not required, although a thesis track is available for interested students.<br><br>All students complete a practicum in their own special areas of interestincluding records management, the administration of historic sites, history museums, historic preservation, or historical publications. Over the past four years, students have interned at the North Carolina State Archives, North Carolina Museum of History, National Archives, Wisconsin Historical Society, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Historic Stagville State Historic Park, National Baseball Hall of Fame, Senator John Heinz History Center (Penn.), Nantucket (Mass.) Historical Society, Duke University Special Collections, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, and Ellis Island Museum of Immigration, among other locations.