Samantha Froemming's History Blog

Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Florida France Soldier Stories project: This week I have been focusing on editing more of the student submissions for the Colmar Pocket Primary Source Packets. This process has consisted mostly of me standardizing the packets to look uniform and professional, which includes adding borders, resizing images to fit the page as large as possible, editing and polishing descriptions of the sources, and checking to make sure the formatting is correct. I also focus on making sure the citations are correctly formatted, the links to the sources are the correct links, and that the student included all of the possible sources for the soldier they researched.  I am supposed to have all ten of my assigned packets completed soon, because we will continue to work on and eventually send them to the Colmar Pocket Museum in France for review and use. However, I have been moving much slower than I would have hoped to, because the source packe...

  Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Florida France Soldier Stories project: This week was primarily focused on the Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting on 10/24, where I presented in a panel alongside Dr. Lyons, a graduate student, and an adjunct professor/elementary school teacher about student engagement with primary sources. I spent the beginning of this week working on my section of the presentation slides, making sure they were cohesive and uniform with the rest of the panel's slides, as well as constructing the narrative I would be sharing in my presentation.  We had a FFSS project meeting on Wednesday (10/22) to discuss the progress we are making on the student source packets for the Colmar Pocket Museum. The meeting was between Dr. Lyons, a graduate student and I, and we mostly went through the source packets I had polished in the week prior to set a standard for the rest of the packets moving forward in the editing process. We discussed ...

Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Florida France Soldier Stories project: Over the weekend, I finished editing the two biographies that I was assigned to standardize before sending them to the Colmar Pocket Museum in France. It took a while to get them both more uniform and standardized within the template given that they were created by two different students, but it was an enjoyable process. The most challenging part of the process was making sure every source that we could find was included, and inserting any sources that the original packet did not have. This allowed me to do the type of research that I did for my biography for Stafford Rimes in the Fall 2024 semester, which I continue to do while editing the biography for this internship. This assignment combines that research process, and learning the skill of editing which I have become accustomed to over the course of this internship.  In the background, I have also been included in the panel for t...

  Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Florida France Soldier Stories project: This past week has been a continuation of the Colmar Pocket Museum source packets from HIS3600. Since my last post, I have been checking the student submissions for the source packets to make sure all of the links are correct, the sources are credible and are the correct person, and that they are ready to be polished for the museum. For the most part, the ten packets I was assigned to review contained a good amount of sources that established a solid foundation to the packets, with only a few exceptions. The majority of the "errors" within the packets are links that do not connect to the correct place, or that the descriptions of the sources are wordy or hard to understand. There were a few that definitely need a good amount of editing and polishing, but they still presented good information that should be utilized within the final packets.  Many of the students were able to ...

Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Florida France Soldier Stories project: This week has shifted focus a bit from the biography that I am tasked with editing to the source packets from Dr. Lyons' HIS3600 course. Since our meeting last week, I have been working on my ten assigned packets to make sure everything looks correct, all of the links work properly, and that all of the sources that are available are included. I have made my way through all ten of the packets to do an overview, and I have been recently working on checking the citations, links, and that they have included as many sources as possible.   Anticipating our meeting this coming Wednesday, I have made sure to check every detail on the packets to prepare for discussing what is potentially missing and what we can do to improve the standardization of the packets in the future, before we send them to the Colmar Museum in France. I have made a separate document listing all of the types of sou...