Eleventh Post- 2 August 2024

    This will be my final blog post documenting my internship for the Florida Historical Review. I am so pleased to have been able to work on this project and to have been part of such a helpful and enthusiastic little team. I have gained several professional skills from this work, such as time management, communication skills, hands-on experience, and a newfound reverence for not only history as a subject, but for history as a professional practice as well. My time at this internship has taught me about what being a historians means, not only as a vocation but as a concrete career. I think that history is often taught as something very abstract, and in some ways it is; lots of it is done through text and theory, but as my work with the journal has proven, these theories manifest themselves in real changes in the world. History can cause people to change how they think about their surroundings, how they retell their stories, and how they construct their narratives in the future. In that sense, I felt as though I was not retreading old ground at all, but rather that I was on the cutting edge of something new and exciting. 

    I would once again like to thank Dr. Lester and Dr. French for this opportunity. I hope that they know that this has made a meaningful difference for me and that it has stoked my enthusiasm for history anew. I would also like to thank my group mates and the entire UCF history department for their help and encouragement along the way. I will certainly be taking everything I have learned from this along the way into whatever future endeavors in which I may find myself involved. 

Thank you everyone! :)

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