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Introduction to Digital History

A course page for HIST 209: Introduction to Digital History

  • Student Sandboxes
    • 2019
      • Rosenthal
      • Haleigh Ardolino
      • Bryce Stump
      • Taylor Stewart
      • Andrew Smith
      • Liesl Greider
      • Garrett Channell
      • Eric Hayslett
      • Sabrina Utz
      • Liz Lee
      • Madeline Rice
      • Jared Soisson
    • 2023
      • Sam Gentile
      • Jalen Ross
      • Nebiyu D. Fanta
      • Samantha Rosenthal
      • Owen Collander
      • Lindsay Blanchfield
      • Becca Goldstein
      • Jayde Mooney
      • Megan Reynolds
      • Kellen Drawbaugh
      • Jack Graves
      • Zach King
      • Ginny Wingo
      • Rachel Simmons
      • Alex Feuer
      • Julia Needham
      • Erin Ramsay
      • Will Larkey
  • Class Projects
    • 1893 Roanoke Race Riot
      • StoryMap
      • Documents
      • Context
    • Digital Project Reviews

Kellen Drawbaugh

Skill 1: My name is Kellen Drawbaugh. I am nineteen years old. I am from Manasquan, New Jersey. I am a Freshman and I am on the swim team. This picture is me in Puerto Rico last Spring Break.

Skill 2:

The image above show the receipt as well as the metadata from the file uploaded to the LGBTQ Digital History Collection. Stitching this data into a newsletter will make it easier for those who want to study the history of LGBTQ+ residents of the Roanoke Valley.

Skill 3:

This article taken from the Dawson News of Dawson, Georgia. It shows the story of how Mrs. Woodhull, and other feminists took over land in Australia and set up an “Adamless Eden” there. In this colony men are not allowed to own land or be invested in the economy. The article also shows how Mrs. Woodhull is the chief financial supporter of the colony due to the fact that her husband the late John Biddulph Martin passed away and left her a wealthy widow. The article explains that there are also two other women involved including a Mrs. Emily Crawford, a Miss Crooke, and Miss Hetty Sawyer who is a doctor.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/froos3.asp FDR’s Third Inaugural Address
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/grant1.asp#:~:text=I%20have%20taken%20this%20oath,I%20commence%20its%20duties%20untrammeled. Ulysses S. Grant’s First Inaugural Address

The Inaugural Address on the left is FDR’s third inauguration speech. This is historical because he the first president to break the precedent of a two term presidency set by George Washington when he stepped down from office in 1797. After this historic reelection Congress passed the twenty second amendment that limited Presidential terms to only two. FDR led the country through the Great Depression and World War Two even with polio. The New Deal brought America back from economic depression and gave many Americans jobs. The Inaugural Address on the right is from Ulysses Grants first inauguration speech. This during the peak of the Reconstruction Era after after Andrew Johnson was impeached. Grants speech consists of him asking the people to accept the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments which had recently been passed and had given rights to African Americans. He also calls for peace and honors the soldiers that fought in the Civil War. Grant knew that the still recovering from the Civil War and from the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnsons failure, so he wanted to calm the people and let them know that he was there to serve them.

For this Ngram i searched up the uses of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, the word telephone as well as my ancestor Daniel Drawbaugh who also invented the telephone but was beaten in getting patent on it by Bell. Obviously telephone is going to be more widely used, but I was surprised by the sharp decrease in the early 2000’s. Also Bell and Daniel Drawbaugh are going to be mentioned less but I still found it interesting that Graham Bell was used rather infrequently. I am surprised that the telephone was mentioned a few times well before 1876 when it was invented, with a surprising jump around 1830. However, the most interesting thing was the huge drop-off in the 2000s.

Skill 4:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1WoKGI7TCNPFTdjQbHrYlFs_YP9T5YMw&usp=sharing

Citation: this map shows my hometown of Manasquan, New Jersey. The markers represent the location of my hometown and various places in my hometown that I like. Including the beach marked by the Atlantic Ocean, the river and more specifically the island in the River where I go in the summer on weekends with my friends and family to hang out, and lastly my favorite hiking place, Allaire State Park. The B on the map represents the road that leads to the beach where I work as a lifeguard in the Summer as well as where i go with my friends. Finally the faint grey triangle represents the water that surrounds the peninsula where my house is. We go kayaking through the creek and into the lake all the time in the summer, or go surfing.

Skill 5:

Skill 6:

And the Sun Rises by Darren Curtis | https://www.darrencurtismusic.com/
Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/
Creative Commons CC BY 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

I did an audio tour of the on campus pool or the alumni pool. I downloaded the music for free from www.chosic.com and gave creative credit to Darren Curtis. since I am on the swim team I spend a lot of time here. Between lifting in the alumni gym and hanging out in the locker room between practice and classes, this place is like a second home to me. I actually had one of my coaches record some of us practicing but unfortunately it was to long to fit into the minute required for the project.

Skill 7

Citation: this is a screenshot of my game Beast of the Sea about the Shark Attacks of 1916

Check out my Twine, a text-based video game. To play, click on this https://mailroanoke-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/personal/kcdrawbaugh_mail_roanoke_edu/EYR9cB1fuPVEh-ipJooPbgcBnqLiZZcuQf7J7REhEHrEVQ?e=ElwkUT. The link will pull up an HTML file. Click “Download.” Now, open the website for Twine, click “Use in your Browser.” Click “Library,” then “Import,” and choose the HTML file you just downloaded. Click on the imported story. Now click “Build,” then “Play.” Voila: it’s my game!

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