Scholarships and Internships

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The lists of scholarships and internships here offer students numerous opportunities for funding and job experience in their history work. Please visit with your history advisor about these opportunities related to your career interests.

First-time Freshmen

Gene Hamaker Memorial Scholarship

Continuing Students

Dale & Izona Best Scholarship

Gene Hamaker Memorial Scholarship

Philip S. & Lois C. Holmgren Scholarship

Dr. Lyle E. Mantor Memorial Scholarship

David R. Stevenson Memorial History Scholarship

W.C. Stotts History Scholarship

O.T. Ventriss Memorial Scholarship

Roger P. Davis Scholarship in Latin American/Hispanic Historical Studies

Graduate Students

Gene Hamaker Memorial Scholarship

Roger P. Davis Scholarship in Latin American/Hispanic Historical Studies

James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation

View more information about scholarships at UNK

Many recent students have done internship work with the following organizations:

  • Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, DC
  • Buffalo County Historical Society, Kearney, NE
  • Chaska Historical Society, Chaska, MN
  • Dakota County Historical Society, St. Paul, MN
  • Dixon Historical Society, Dixon, CA
  • Durham Museum, Omaha, NE
  • Ed Johnson Project, Chattanooga, TN
  • Elkhorn Valley Museum, Norfolk, NE
  • G.W. Frank Museum of History and Culture, Kearney, NE
  • History Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 
  • Lewis Army Museum, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA
  • Library of Congress, Washington, DC
  • Museum of the High Plains, McCook, NE
  • National Institutes of Health Stetten Museum, Bethesda, MD
  • National Park Service NHL Program, Omaha, NE
  • Pathways Program, National Park Service
  • Speedway Museum, Lincoln, NE
  • Story City Historical Society, Story City, IA
  • Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum, Ashland, NE
  • Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer, Grand Island, NE
  • Willa Cather Foundation, Red Cloud, NE