UC Santa Barbara defined Public History as a profession in 1976, with a Rockefeller Foundation grant to train historians for public and private sector careers beyond conventional academic employment. Since then, we have produced more than 100 students who apply their historical skills, knowledge, and insights in public settings in museums and heritage sites, businesses, government agencies, nonprofit groups, and private foundations. To meet the wide range of opportunities presented by the many publics we serve, the UCSB program prepares students first as historians broadly trained scholar-professionals fully versed in the literature, methods, and interpretive debates of the venerable discipline but also especially conscious of the special challenges and resources distinctive to the public practice of history. Public history students regularly take advantage of the History Department's large and diverse faculty to integrate their particular research and reading interests into their program. Students have the opportunity to intern locally with the Santa Barbara Mission Archives Library, which houses the Franciscan Archives of the West, and hone their interpretive skills with Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, which engages with the public at the historic Presidio and the Casa de la Guerra in downtown Santa Barbara, as well as the Santa Ynez Mills.