Graduate Research Associates

With funding from the NHPRC, the Civil War Governors of Kentucky (CWGK) has recruited 23 Graduate Research Associates (GRAs) from premier history programs across the United States to help annotate the project's documents.

The GRAs underscore a core principle of CWGK and Kentucky Historical Society (KHS), that how the work of history gets done is as important as the fact that it gets done. The GRA positions allow CWGK to nurture research skills in emerging scholars as well as exposing them to digital project startup and management, collaborative work as a member of a research team, the establishment and maintenance of project policies, and the production of historical knowledge in diverse forms for audiences beyond academia. Working as a GRA on the CWGK project not only builds these students' digital humanities skills portfolios, it makes them better scholarly researchers by encouraging them to flip their engagement with the archive and to think seriously about how research collections are built and curated as well as how they are used by audiences beyond academic researchers like themselves.

Project Internships

Are you a graduate student with an interest in historical research and documentary editing? Are you interested in expanding your skill sets to increase your competitiveness in today’s history profession? Are you interested in creating the historical infrastructure needed to support and encourage the work of historians for the foreseeable future? Are you interested in promoting historical understanding across the commonwealth of Kentucky, throughout the United States, and around the globe? Are you interested in improving and promoting the importance of history education for everyone?If your answer is YES to one or more of these questions then you may be a good fit for a CWGK project internship at the Kentucky Historical Society. Click here to apply for a Kentucky Historical Society internship opportunity with the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition.

Volunteers

Are you an individual or group with an interest in historical research and learning about documentary editing? Are you interested in further understanding the skill sets of today’s professional historians? Do you enjoy the challenges that come with transcribing historic documents? Do you enjoy researching individuals and families? Do you have experience working with relational databases? Are you interested in helping KHS expand the historical infrastructure of our state and region? Are you interested in promoting historical understanding across the commonwealth of Kentucky, throughout the United States, and around the globe? Are you interested in improving and promoting the importance of history education for all people in today’s world?If your answer is YES to one or more of these questions then you may be a good fit for a CWGK project volunteer at the Kentucky Historical Society. Click here to apply for Kentucky Historical Society volunteer opportunities with the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition.