Brendan Campbell's History Internship 2024

This week I and my fellow interns met with Dr. Lester and we received our new books. I confirmed that my previous assignment was finished and that my notes would be sent to the author. We had many books to choose from, but I ended up selecting the Stetson Kennedy Reader. I was not familiar with Kennedy's work until discovering this book, and I have found it very interesting. Our goal with this assignment is to review the preface or foreword, take special note of any footnotes and/or acknowledgements, and to document them. Then, based on that information, we need to research academics in the field of study being written about and gather information about them and their work. Mine might be tricky, as it deals with such a niche topic (the work of one man), but I hope to be able to find specialists on Florida anthropology and activism in the mid twentieth century, who, I predict, will undoubtedly have at some point encountered Stetson Kennedy's work. Hopefully all these people have...

 I have officially submitted my reviewed and copy edited article. I am still getting prepared for my second assignment, but I feel that I am ready for whatever that may be. Last week my post was submitted late, which was an oversight on my part, but I am back on schedule and I will try to be much more punctual in the future. I submitted my mid-term evaluation to Dr. Lester, and the publishing of this blog post will mark my halfway point through the Florida Historical Review internship. As I approach the second semester of the summer, I feel that I have a gotten a more firm grasp on what the internship entails, and my goal is to increase my productivity as I move forward. I also plan to begin work on my final project presentation. I will also be taking another class next semester, as I did this semester, so I should be in a similar situation to how I am now and have been for the first half of the summer. I do not mind this, since the first semester I found my situation to be managea...

This week I completed my copy editing for my article and sent it to Dr. Lester. I tried to keep all critiques and edits appropriate to my position as an editor and reviewer and I think that I did that successfully. Once again the reviewers met with Dr. Lester in her office and we touched base with one another. I got to hear about what other kinds of new projects my peers were working on, which was very interesting. My laptop was giving me serious trouble this week, so my access to Word, which I have been using to review the article, was restricted temporarily, but I think this has been resolved for good. Another issue I ran into was that I was unable to find the images Dr. Lester sent me to add to the article. I knew they were in an email somewhere, but I could not find them for the life of me, so I wrote “Image” as a placeholder in all the places where I would have put the image. Of course, after having sent her the finished ...

I have spent the week copy editing my article. Dr. Lester was out in a conference this week, so we did not meet in person. We did, however, check up over email to ensure that things were going well and that I was making progress. I have found that I have settled into the rhythm of the internship quite comfortably. Historically, I have always been someone who works in large chunks of productivity instead of steadily chipping away at big assignments. For this one, however, I feel I have a much better long term grasp on it than I would for an ordinary research paper or copy editing assignment for school. Hopefully this has taught me a long-term lesson about professionalism and time management, one which I have been learning very slowly for several years! Reading the article more closely has taught me a great deal about Florida's agricultural history, and about Floridian history in general. The topic my assigned article is covering covers many decades of the 20th century, so every time...