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FFSS Internship (Spring) Week 13

Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Florida France Soldier Stories project: After my post last week, I sent the biography I was tasked with working on to the project manager to review, and I began to review the biography I had originally wrote in HIS4150 in fall 2024. The previous edits mostly filled in some gaps and clarified some sections from my original work, and now it is time for me to fill in the information that we gained after the project was completed that semester. To do this, I picked up a book from Dr. Lyons on Tuesday that was published by a historian named Samuel de Korte. When I was a student in HIS4150, I found the book randomly one day online before it was published, and we connected with the author, who then was able to include Stafford (the veteran I researched) and his photo into his monograph. I am now able to use this source in our biography to fill in gaps regarding the unit he served in, which was the 452nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automa...
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Bicentennial Exhibit Development Internship Week 13

Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Bicentennial Exhibit Development project: This week has been focused on editing the narrative text and beginning our design of the Canva object label templates in preparation for our session in the Archive and Dr. Crepeau's office collection. Communication about the schedule for the workshop session has been delayed, but hopefully we will receive confirmation for next Wednesday (4/15) so that the team can get the labels drafted before our deadline.  Because of delays in communication, we have decided to extend the deadline for the object labels to April 24, which allows us more time to make sure the labels are completed and in good shape for the end of the project before it is set up in the gallery space. I have been in communication with the other undergraduate interns about this, and in the meantime we will be drafting the template for the object labels in Canva. The deadline for next week will be the template instead of...
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FFSS Internship (Spring) Week 12

 H ello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Florida France Soldier Stories project: Since my last update, I have made great progress on editing the biography I have been tasked with! This week, I worked on finishing up the sections I had left to edit, which included the section I discussed in last week's blog post regarding the sudden appearance of Melun, France in the narrative. I implemented the suggestions that Dr. Lyons spoke to me about in our last team meeting, and I think it flows nicely with the rest of that section's narrative.  After finishing that section, I moved on to the "Legacy" portion of the biography, which usually discusses the soldier's unit after their death, any family legacy associated, and other larger historical themes or events related to the soldier. For this specific biography, there was a need to add in some more "bulk" to the "Legacy" section because of the soldier's identity as an African Ame...
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Bicentennial Exhibit Development Internship Week 12

Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Bicentennial Exhibit Development project: Since turning in our narrative text draft last week, the team has been waiting for our first round of feedback for future editing on the gallery narratives. In the meantime, we are working to find a day and time to get the whole team together to draft the object labels, which are due on April 17.  We have hit a bit of a roadblock in trying to figure out a day to plan this drafting session, because of everyone's normal schedules and also how hectic the end of the semester gets for everyone involved. I have been in constant communication with the graduate project supervisor to try to figure out a day, however we have not made much progress in this regard. My initial idea was for the team to be able to go back into the Special Collections and University Archives and pull out the specific objects that we decided on back in February with our object list, and to plug them into a Canva te...
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FFSS Internship (Spring) Week 11

  Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Florida France Soldier Stories project: Since my last post before spring break, I have been continuing to work on editing my assigned biography for the rest of the semester's task. I have worked through most of the content within the biography, and this editing is mostly concerned with rewriting certain historical narratives that the original student mentioned, but may not have fully elaborated on. This has mostly been within the "Military Service" section of the biography, because previously, the "Early Life" section had been worked on by a graduate student, so I did not need to edit that section much. In my editing of the "Military Service" section, however, I had run into a slight bump in the road.  In this section, there was a brief note from either a graduate student or Dr. Lyons (we could not figure out for sure who wrote it since it has been a long time since the semester it was writt...
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Bicentennial Exhibit Development Internship Week 11

Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Bicentennial Exhibit Development project: This week is the same as the past two weeks (including spring break): working on our narrative text for the gallery cases! The other two undergraduate interns and I have been researching and writing our selected narrative themes/sections, and everything is looking great! We each chose five themes/narratives to work on, and I chose the three main introductory panels for the exhibit's overall purpose and background, and the first two themed panels for the Bicentennial in Florida in 1976. I have had a lot of fun going the research for these sections, especially the panel for Disney World's "America on Parade" that went on from 1975-1976 in honor of the 200th anniversary of the United States' adoption of the Declaration of Independence. The parade featured distinct "American" characters, such as pilgrims and suffragettes, to showcase the "people who bui...
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FFSS Internship (Spring) Week 9

Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Florida France Soldier Stories project: Since last week, I have been working on editing the biography that I am picking up from last semester's assignment. So far, a lot of the work has been re-familiarizing myself with the content of the narrative and the sources that I have available from the original student's work from the course. As I mentioned last week, much of the story has already been looked over and edited by a previous graduate student, so the "Early Life" section barely needed any editing, and mostly consisted of me resolving comments on the document thread.  I am currently half-way through the "Military Service" section of the biography, which needs the most editing so far. Much of this has been rewriting rather than slight edits to the language or structure of the biography. Much of the information is either not cited well enough to track where the student got it from, or not quite co...
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