Samantha Froemming's History Blog

  Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Florida France Soldier Stories project: Since last week, I have made much more progress on the biography that I have been assigned to edit for this semester. After going through the biography initially, I figured that the largest amounts of editing need to be within the Military Service section, since there has been editing done to it by the team before I was assigned it. From there, I devised a way to make the edits onto my version of the document while still keeping the student's original work to not accidentally lose vital parts of the biographical narrative. I came up with a highlighting and color-font system that allowed me to see where my new edits were and where the student's original work was, which works very well. Parts of the editing process are simple "clean-up" sections where I refine and polish the student's writing and other little things. However, in the Military Service section, there i...

  Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Florida France Soldier Stories project: Since my last post, the graduate students and I were present in Dr. Lyons' HIS3600 class on Tuesday (9/16) and Thursday (9/18) to help out with various parts of the primary source packet project that they were in the process of completing by Thursday (9/18).  On Tuesday, we helped the students with their workshop session after submitting their drafts of the project before the deadline on Thursday. In class, Dr. Lyons briefly discussed the types of sources that the students had found so far in their research, including the sections of Early Life, Military Service, and Legacy/Post Service Life. Many of the students had numerous examples of sources that fit these sections, with some of the students even having found pictures, high school records, marriage records, and other not as common sources. Some of the students had struggled with their primary source research, which could b...

 Hello!  Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Florida France Soldier Stories project: After last week's packed schedule, this week has been much less hectic. This week I am focusing on starting the editing process of the biography that I chose to work on this semester. So far, I have been going through the edits from the previous work that has been done on this biography to see where my editing will fit in.  The "Early Life" section of the biography has had the most previous editing done to it, whereas the "Military Service" and "Legacy" sections need more work. I will be continuing to go through the "Early Life" section to see if all of the information detailed matches the sources we have on our end, and making notes of any changes that need to be made going forward. There are also some general grammar mistakes that will need to be fixed, but that may come last once all the correct information is included so that we are not c...

  Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Florida France Soldier Stories project: This week was busy! Since my last post, I had a meeting with Dr. Lyons to discuss my role in the project which led to me picking a biography to begin editing for the semester. However, the beginning of the editing process was slightly delayed this week because of our involvement in Dr. Lyons' HIS3600 course. In HIS3600, the students have a project for the next few weeks where they are creating a primary source packet, which is similar to the beginning of the biography drafting process, although they will not be writing a biography after collecting the sources. This packet is in connection to a larger project in collaboration with the Colmar Pocket Museum in Turckheim, France. T o prepare the students for the work they will be conducting over the coming weeks, Dr. Lyons, a graduate student, and I put a presentation together to demonstrate what type of work they will be doing. On Wed...

  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...