The Public History Program of the University of South Carolina enjoys strong working relationships with our region's diverse and dynamic public history community. These institutions and sites provide numerous opportunities for student internships, and many of these agencies have also provided assistantship support for Public History students in recent years.

Agencies based in Columbia include the South Carolina Department of Archives and History; the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism; the South Carolina State Museum; the South Carolina State Historic Preservation Office; the South Carolina African-American Heritage Council; the Columbia Development Corporation; the South Carolina Downtown Development Corporation; the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology; the Columbia Museum of Art; the university's McKissick Museum and its South Caroliniana Library; the preservation office of the City of Columbia; and Historic Columbia Foundation, which operates four historic house museums.

Two hours away in Charleston are the South Carolina Historical Society, the Charleston Museum, and the southern regional office of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Trust's museum property, Drayton Hall, as well as nationally recognized local organizations such as the Historic Charleston Foundation and the Preservation Society of Charleston.

Close by in North Carolina are the Biltmore House and Estate in Asheville and Old Salem in Winston-Salem. In addition, there are a number of units of the national park system in the Carolinas and Georgia.