Episode 28: The Florida-France Soldier Stories Project

(Originally published by Sebastian Garcia on December 29th, 2022) The Department of History’s Sebastian Garcia spoke with the members of the Florida-France Soldier Stories Project research team to discuss the imperative and impressive work that they have done since 2015 to honor and commemorate Floridians that gave their lives to liberate France and defeat Germany in the Second World War.

Down below are the timestamps in which each of the different group segments begins:

• Group 0: (03:27) Intro with Dr. Amelia Lyons (Principal Investigator)
• Group 1: (12:42) Faculty/Staff, featuring
  •  Dr. Lyons (PI)
  • Richard Harrison III (Research Librarian Consultant)
  • Richard Gause (Research Librarian Consultant)
  • Dr. Amy Giroux (Digital Consultant)
• Group 2: (39:50) Graduate Students, featuring
  • Dr. Lyons (PI)
  • Marie Oury
  • Jim Stoddard
  • Elizabeth Klements
• Group 3: (01:20:28) Undergraduate Student, featuring
  • Dr. Lyons (PI)
  • Evan Murray

To find out more information about this project and to read the biographies of the soldiers, check out their website (which was mentioned several times in the pod):

https://projects.cah.ucf.edu/fl-francesoldierstories/

Need LSAT tutoring? As mentioned in 01:43:46, Evan is an LSAT tutor for the Princeton Review. To contact him about this, please email him at murrayevan725@gmail.com

A special shoutout to Professor Nikolas Gardiakos, who has helped Sebastian throughout this entire process of ensuring that these podcasts are of the utmost quality. As mentioned in the outro of this podcast, please check out Professor Gardiakos’s (and Professor Meeghan Faulconer’s) podcast—Discussions on Writing and Rhetoric—at https://ucfdwr.podbean.com/

Check out Sebastian’s debut Florida Historical Quarterly Podcast, in which he spoke with Dr. Martin T. Olliff about his article in the Winter/Spring 2021 issue of the Florida Historical Quarterly. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq-podcast/44/