Samantha Froemming's History Blog

Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Florida France Soldier Stories project: This is my last blog post for this semester, which is so sad! I have really loved this internship and I will miss it over winter break, however I am coming back in the spring semester so I will look forward to January!  This week has been very different than anything else I have been doing all semester, but I am in the midst of finals, so the work on the packets slowed down, but I engaged with other aspects of the internship. The first thing I prioritized this past week was applying for funding towards the Florida Conference of Historians in January 2026. I am waiting to hear back about the possibility of funding, so hopefully it works out! I suppose I will update in January since that is when I would receive it. This was my first time applying for conference travel and registration funding, so it was a learning process on how it works with UCF's Student Government Association. I had...

  Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Florida France Soldier Stories project: These blog posts are pretty repetitive as of recently, since I have been working towards the same goal. But that is good, because it means that we are making progress! I have been consistently working on editing the student submission packets for the Colmar Pocket Museum primary source packets in HIS3600. So far, I have "completed" four out of the ten packets I have been assigned to edit. I say completed in quotations because I am just the first step, and then they will have to be reviewed with the graduate students' work as well, and then we can finalize them for future use. I have enjoyed this process, and I am hoping to get a few more done by the end of next week. I want to try to get all ten reviewed and edited before the end of the semester, however everyone's busy schedules may determine that to change. Until then, though, the work continues! This Wednesday (11/...

Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Florida France Soldier Stories project: This update will be very similar to last week because I have been working toward the same goal: standardizing and editing the Colmar Pocket Museum student submission packets. I have made more progress since last week, however, which is great! Like I explained in my previous post, the time it takes to edit these packets is the major roadblock in getting them finished quickly. The standardization process is slow, especially when students do a great job of including a lot of information! Although it has taken me much longer than I anticipated to complete these editing steps, the packets I have come close to finalizing look great, and I think the Museum will be very pleased with them. To give a frame of reference to how the timeline of editing the packets it, I have made it through one entire packet since last week, and I am currently half way through another packet. This is three (and a hal...