Samantha Froemming's History Blog

  Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Florida France Soldier Stories project: Since my last post, the project had our first meeting of the fall semester last Thursday to discuss updates and further goals of the project moving forward. Because it was my first meeting with the team all together, Dr. Lyons mostly spoke about what occurred over the summer and how the project will be moving forward after our meeting. I enjoyed listening to Dr. Lyons’ recap of what she did in France over the summer with the project, and I am excited for what this means for the project in the future! I also thoroughly enjoyed listening to the team discuss individual aspects of their positions on the project as well as the graduate students’ work on their personal projects. I loved listening to the collaborative exchange of ideas from researchers, since this is something I look forward to doing in the future.   As for my position on the project from this point onward, I wa...

  Hello! My name is Samantha Froemming, I am currently in my fourth year as an undergraduate student at the University of Central Florida. I am majoring in History, with a minor in Medieval/Renaissance Studies, and I am particularly interested in Late Medieval/Early Modern Europe in regards to topics such as chivalry and knighthood, women and gender, and religion. Specific areas of my interest include France, the British Isles, and the Holy Roman Empire.  However, my interest in history is not limited to these topics entirely, as I am now involved in the Florida France Soldier Stories project at UCF as an intern after working on the project in the Fall 2024 semester for the HIS4150: History and Historians course. During my time in HIS4150 with Dr. Lyons, I worked on the biography of World War II veteran Stafford Rimes, a black soldier from Lake County, Florida. The research I conducted for this project was different from the research avenues I am more familiar with for Medieva...