Public History Internship 2025: UCF Veterans History Project

This week produced little to report on in terms of work accomplished, as some necessary organizing and communications are still underway between myself and the program coordinators, but it has certainly built my anticipation for what I will soon be tackling. I am eager to see how exactly I will fit into this program, and what roles I will be tasked with fulfilling.  I've taken the opportunity provided by this transitory period to reflect on some of the materials provided and recommended to students during Dr. Gannon's Military History Class. I completed this course in the spring semester of 2025, and was thoroughly pleased with the readings we were assigned to complete.  With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa  by Eugene Sledge was arguably my favorite and the read I found most enriching. Sledge recounts his experiences as a young man in boot camp, his training at home and on the pacific islands abroad, and the horrors and camaraderie alike that he experienced while se...

Hello all, and welcome to my blog! Here I will be documenting my experience as a Public History Intern at UCF, specifically working with the Veterans History Project. As a preliminary to diving further into my expectations and excitement regarding the project itself, some self-introductory measures are in order. My name is Scout Rogers and I am in my senior year of pursuing a bachelor's degree in computer science with a minor in history. This may be a comparably unique combination for interns of the history department, however this is the result of having been torn between my love of computer science and related engineering, and the beautifully broad field of history and archival sciences. I hope to pursue a masters degree in archival and library sciences to combine these passions with the perspectives gained from my time at UCF. I am, and have always been, fascinated by the interpretations of the world around us -- forged by historians and mathematicians alike -- and how one's...