Spring 2023

• 0 items for Spring 2023
  • Note for October: Apologies for missing the spring deadline. I added several entries over the summer! And I will keep adding entries as we move into the fall - JSJ, 7/12/23

Fall 2022

Good job on your edits so far Jonathan! Please continue and make sure that your are keeping your background and context sections to 250 words or less. If you would like to add more historical context to something than you can make a more long form product by creating a blog post or exhibit. Some of your items can also be split up into multiple items so you can create shorter backgrounds.

Professor Thomas J. Jackson’s Classroom

• the background and context is over the 250 maximum please cut. If you would like to add more historical context to this item you can create an exhibit or blog post.
• [x] Change the template to a memorial template
• [x] Change the format of the title to match the Academic Facility memorial template
• [x] Add item to the Legacy Hub Dev site
• [x] content edit

Chapel and Meeting Place

• [x] Delete (duplicate item)
• [x] content edit

Washington Statue

• the background and context is over the 250 maximum please cut. If you would like to add more historical context to this item you can create an exhibit or blog post.
• [x] Remove dublin core class (we are not using those for the memorial template)
• [x] Change Legacies Classification to Memorial artwork
• [x] Reformat title to match the format for Sculptural Memorials
• [x] Tag memorial as altered-moved
• [x] Add item to the Legacy Hub Dev site
• [x] add link to dedication speech 1866
• I also added the memorial context of enslaver

Scott Ship

• [x] Rename item to match the title format for people (last name, first name)
• [x] Add item to the Legacy Hub Dev stie

Flagpole Commemorating Sons of Confederate Veterans Reunion Parade

• [x] Remove dublin core class (we are not using those for the memorial template)
• [x] Add a memorial type (right now memorial type is showing a memorial context)
• [x] content edit
• [x] Add item to the Leagacy Hub Dev site

Thomas J. “Stonewall Jackson”

• [x] Reformat title to match format for people (last name, first name)
• [x] content edit (using Nathan Benton research)
• [x] Add to Legacy Hub Dev site

Stonewall Jackson’s Professor Uniform

• There are two map pins for this item? If the item has been moved please include that in the background and context, add a date modified, and the altered— moved tag. Also label one of the map pins as the former location and the other the current. If not please remove one of the map pins.
  • I only see one map pin (in the correct location) on my end… am I missing something?
• [x] Reformat title to match the format for object (in this case I would recommend Uniform worn by Professor Stonewall Jackson)
• [x] Add historical period for date modified
• [x] Add location: Institution, City, State
• [x] content edit
• [x] Add to Legacy Hub Dev site
• How was this item modified in 2003? If it was moved or destroyed please include that in the historical context and tag it as altered moved or altered destroyed in the tag field (deleted the modification )

Chapel and Meeting Place

• Does this building memorialize anyone or anything? If not it may be better to change the template to the place template if it only holds memorials and then we can add the tag field in order to tag it as renamed.
  • yes, it was named after stonewall jackson until name change in 2021… I updated the entry to clarify.
• [x] Change memorialized subject (this should be who the building used to memorialize not the former name of the building)
• [x] Add a date modified for when the building was renamed
• [x] Add the historical period for the date modified
• [x] Remove campus location (only use this for items held in places that are not memorials)
• [x] Add Location: Institution, City, State
• [x] Add alterned- renamed tag
• [x] add dedication speeches
• [x] content edit
• [x] Add to Legacy Hub Dev Site
• [x] add new media
• [x] link to other relevant items

1848 Cadet Battery

• The background and context is over the 250 word maximum. please shorten it. If you would like to include information about the ceremonies that this item has had you can create a separate memorial item using the commemorative event template. Or you can write a blog post or exhibit on this item to include more historical information.
• There are also two map pins. Please label one as former location and the other as current and make sure to tag the memorial as altered— moved.
• [x] Change memorialized subject (remove the information about who built it and just state that the four cannons used in the civil war are being memorialized)
• [x] Reformat title to match the format for object titles
• [x] change creator (just say Alger, Cyrus)
• [x] remove campus location
• [x] Add location: Institution, City, State
• [x] content edit
• [x] Add to Legacy Hub Dev Site

SGT belts and Officers belts

• I deleted this item because it’s not a great fit for the database
• [x] remove dublin core class (we are not using this for memorial items)
• [x] change memorial type (wrong drop down is showing please choose one from this controlled vocabulary)
• [x] Reformat title
• [x] Remove item form location: institution, city, state
  • [x] Choose your institution from the drop down instead
• [x] Add to legacy hub dev site
• [x] Add to VMI spoke site
• [x] content edit

Virginia Mourning Her Dead

• [x] Reformat title to fit sculpture memorial format
• [x] change creator to (last name, first name)
• [x] remove campus location
• [x] Add location: Institution, City, State
• [x] Add to legacy hub dev site
• [x] content edit

Claudius Crozet

• Do you have image of the person instead to use? Also the memorial images that are currently under his person item can be memorials of there own if they are on your campus.
  • done! will try to split up his entry into separate entries for the gravesite and the building in the fall
• [x] Change name to (last name, first name)
• [x] Add pre-emancipation defender of racial hierarchies to connection to the legacies of American slavery db field
• [x] Add to legacy hub dev site
• [x] Add to VMI spoke site
• [x] content edit

New Market Battle Painting

• [x] Remove dublin core class
• [x] add a memorial type
• [x] reformat title to match Visual Work of Art
• [x] Add artist to creator/participating person
• [x] Add a historical period
• [x] change funded by to (last name, first name)
• [x] Add location: Intuition, City, State
• [x] Add to legacy hub dev site
• [x] Add to VMI spoke site
• [x] content edit

Jackson Arch

• [x] Change memorialized to an item tag for the Thomas Stonewall Jackson person item
• [x] Reformat title to match Space on campus template
• [x] Change creator to (last name, first name)
• [x] Remove campus location
• [x] Add location: institution, city, state
• [x] Add to legacy hub dev site
• [x] Add to VMI spoke site
• [x] Map site
• [x] content edit

“Stonewall Jackson Staute”

• [x] Change memorialized subject to an item tag for the Thomas Stonewall Jackson person item
• [x] Reformat title to fit the template for Sculptural Memorial
• [x] remove campus location
• [x] Add location: Instituion, City, State
• [x] Add altered— moved tag
• [x] Add to legacy hub dev site
• [x] Add to VMI spoke site
• [x] Map site