The Historical Interpreter Apprentice Program Andersonville
National Historic Site is proud to offer an award-winning
educational opportunity in 2014. The Historical Interpreter
Apprentice Program (HIAP) is a great chance for high school
students interested in history, teaching, public speaking,
theater and community service to learn new skills and get strong
work experience at a federal institution. Who is an historical
interpreter? An historical interpreter is a person who presents
history to wide audiences, in a variety of formats. This can
include professions like teachers, park rangers, museum guides,
tour guides and actors. Historical interpreters might
participate in such things as writing museum exhibits, leading
tours, showing historical games or chores, creating brochures or
performing as historical figures. They are, at heart,
storytellers who can use their written words, their voices and
their bodies to tell amazing stories that happen to be true.
Even at a site about the Civil War, both young men