Check In

• Name and Institution
• How is your semester going?
• Thanksgiving plans?
• Any questions to add to the agenda

Reminders

• Google Form for Spoke Sites
• Google Form for PI Stipends

Questions/Agenda

• Working with Students

  • Dr. Register’s Reflection on his experience with his freshman class
    • Divided class into three research teams to work on one memorial per team
    • Field trips and excursions to relevant memorials
    • Critical reflection on how the person in the memorial is currently being memorialized (through biography)
    • Integrated a conference into the curriculum
  • Editing Students entries
    • spelling, grammar, etc.
    • what the entry needs to do— not a fully and complete history
  • Jonathan and his students
    • students are finding a lot of info and are working through prioritizing the information
    • sorting through what is fact and what is university branding/propaganda

• Sarah form W&M: Will there be a category for confederates in addition to the lost cause category?

  • We are updating the lost cause category definition to include the confederacy so no there will not be two separate categories

• Phillip from Wofford: Where do items go? Do they need to go in a particular place?

  • Under the sites tab of your item, make sure that your item is added to the legacy hub site and your institutions spoke site.

• Jonathan from VMI: Is there a fillable pdf for forms?

  • October will convert the pdf into a fillable form.

• Strategies for addressing university push back

  • Using university diversity and research statements to show how the research fits into what the university says it stands for

• How to write a paragraph on university history for spoke sites?

  • specifically how it ties into the lost cause, confederacy, and the civil war

  What we have so far:

  The Locating Slavery's Legacies page of the University of the South is a publicly accessible database of information about our campus's memorials and monuments to slave-owners, Confederate military veterans and civilian officials, and prominent figures in the post-Civil War Lost Cause campaign to erase slavery and its brutalities from the memories of white Americans. Sewanee students and faculty members have compiled this information. We make this data available to inform our own community and the public at large about our university's deep historic entanglements with the leadership of the antebellum slaveocracy, the Confederacy, the post-Civil War defense of the Lost Cause, and the suppression of African Americans in the century of Jim Crow injustice and segregation after emancipation. We hope the forthright presentation of this information contributes to both our own and the nation's reckoning with and atonement for the enduring legacies of American slavery.

Thinking About Next Month’s Session (12/9)

• Reflections on the pilot year
  • What's working?
  • What's not working?
• What post pilot year could look like