Jack Graves

Skill #1

I am a History major and a Spanish minor with a concentration in Public History at Roanoke College. I am from Roanoke, VA and have a chihuahua named Max. I am the president of the Quiz Bowl club and the secretary of the Roanoke Historic Society. I am a fan of the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Roanoke Railyard Dogs.

Skill #2

Above is a screenshot of my submission to the Roanoke College JSTOR for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance newsletter. This file shows all the metadata collected from the May-June newsletter in 1991. This data makes it significantly easier to understand the context surrounding the document you are viewing.

Skill #3

Skill #3 Part 1

*The Advocate and news. [volume]* (Topeka, Kan.), 15 Dec. 1897. *Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers*. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85032019/1897-12-15/ed-1/seq-16/>

This article is from Topeka Kansas, which I don’t completely view as a part of the south; however it does have a very positive view to Victoria Woodhull. The article uses words like wonderful and remarkable when discussing Woodhull.

Skill #3 Part 2

Inaugural Address | The American Presidency Project (ucsb.edu)

I find it very interesting how similar these two speeches are. It seems almost like those “Spot the differences” pictures we would do as kids. With words like People and Government being the two most used words in both speeches which shows Cleveland’s values in government. Cleveland’s first speech (left) mainy focuses on the words “Government” and “People” which shows the focus of the Cleveland adminstration. The second speech (Middle) repeats many of the points of the first with the 2 largest words being “People” and “Government” yet again. This shows the similarity between the 2 Inaugural adresses given by Cleveland. The word cloud on the right mixes the 2 speeches into 1 and it shows the similarity between the two speeches as it is also nearly identical to the 2 speech word clouds. I received the Inaugural addresses from here: 3 Inaugural Addresses | The American Presidency Project (ucsb.edu)

Skill #3 Part 3

This Screenshot shows the uses of the words Revolution, Colonies, and Alcohol from 1776-Present. We can see 2 peaks of the word Revolution, one during the American the other during the 1970s. The use of alcohol has steadily risen until 1970, when it fell under revolution for couple years. Colonies has steadily dropped since the American Revolution.

Skill #4

This is a map that shows my travels during my time in Grenada, Spain in the summer 2019. The points cover the Hotel we stayed at, the large forested area we drove by, and the Alhambra. The walkway I chose to show was the path in which Spanish warriors would have had to enter the Alhambra during the final siege of Southern Spain.

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Skill #6

Music is from <a href="http://Our Only Uplift by <a href="https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/168405">Blue Dot SessionsBlue Dot Studios, called “Our Only Uplift”. This short tour through the Bank Building is meant to excite any new History student to not only study history at Roanoke, but make history at Roanoke. The ambient chatter is a very quieted and edited recording from the Selby Cup.

Skill #7

In this game you play as Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare in the 1940s, trying to determine which of the suspects are Russian Operatives. Can you save America? For this game I used twine to build the actual game, then used Wikimedia to find all the images for the game itself. This game is a satirical comment on the insanity and the paranoia of the time. The image above is from the first version of this game. Click on the link above, download, then open Twine and upload the file and enjoy!