Most internships offer a stipend, and each position provides experience useful for future jobs.
The director of the Scholarly Publishing program assists students in arranging summer internships with publishers or book manufacturers, or with documentary editing projects. Internships for the business and policy history areas of specialty familiarize students with work experience relevant to future positions in the field. Students in historical administration work on specific projects or on a variety of programs in historic sites or museums, which helps them define future employment areas of interest. In the preservation area, students work with public preservation offices or private consultants. Some recent interning institutions include the Arizona Center for the Book, Arizona Highways , Arizona Historical Society, Arizona State Historic Preservation Office, Beacon Press, Bureau of Land Management, History Division of the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, Louisiana State Historical Preservation Office, Mesa Southwest Museum, Minnesota Historical Society Press, Museum of Northern Arizona, National Academy Press, National Park Service, Nevada State Historic Preservation Office, Ohio State University Press, The Oryx Press, Phoenix Historic Preservation Office, Phoenix Museum of History, Prentice-Hall, Pueblo Grande Museum and Cultural Park, Salt River Project, Smithsonian Institution, State Archives of Arizona, Tempe Historical Museum, University of Arizona Press, University of California Press, University of Illinois Press, Veterans Museum of Wisconsin, Wisconsin State Historic Preservation Office, and Yale University Press.