The intro is great, I think - it has a strong lead that introduces significant ideas, and then it moves to a firm two-part thesis. Look forward to reading the full paper.

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Reiterating some comments about the intro - you are on the right track. Beginning general and moving specific is fine. Not quite SO general, however. And, you can fill out the intro a bit. Perhaps you want to begin with the subject of ethnic monuments, and move from there to Concordia. You can note the presence of several monuments in a complex there, all of them culture-themed. And go from that to your thesis on Aasen.

A monument to a liniguist - that sounds sort of dry, doesn't it? It is your task to convey the importance of his life and work, the basis for making a monument to him. The elevation of a vernacular language to the status of a national tongue is a matter of pride and importance. For use in your conclusion, you might want to find some material on that very subject. There must be a scholarly literature on the importance of language ini building national identity. That would give you the opportunity in the conclusion to say that this guy is forgotten, yes, but the thing for which he was honored was important and should be remembered.

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The intro starts in the middle of things, which is fine. I think the transition out of the initial scene is a little abrupt and awkward - the "Wrong" transition. See if you can make this transition more smooth, probably be being more orthodox with it. The thesis needs a little thought as to the wording. If the monument is largely forgotten, can it be important to memory? Anyway, you're getting the draft down and moving in a good direction with it.

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Thanks for posting, Betsy. The plan is sound, but I sense a little blurring between the section on the memory group(s) and the following section on "upstream" events. The former focuses on the people doing the monument-making; the latter focuses on those being celebrated by the monument; these two, of course, may overlap.

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Betsy, you have a good summary of the article on statues during the Vichy regime. Thanks. (Check the spelling of one word in the first sentence, though.)

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Sometimes things just won't come together. So, embrace the contradictions and gaps. It gives you the chance to act like a historian, musing over the fragmentary and folklorish nature of your sources!

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If you are researching any of the following monuments, check out the Herman O. Fjelde Family Papers (manuscript 82) at the Institute for Regional Studies. I saw articles pertaining to several of the monuments we're working on this semester.

Bjornson monument
Ivar Aasen Monument
Henrik Arnold Wergeland Monument

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Ashabranner, Brent K. Always to Remember: The Story of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1998.
Ashabranner, Brent K. Badge of Valor: The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. Brookfield, Conn: Twenty-First Century Books, 2000.
Barthel, Diane L. Historic Preservation: Collective Memory and Historical Identity. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1996.
Baruch, Mildred C. and Ellen J. Beckman. Civil War Union Monuments: A List of Union Monuments, Markers, and Memorials of the American Civil War, 1861-1965. Washington: Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1978.
Behor, G. Ancient Greece: The Famous Monuments Past and Present. Getty Publications, 2000.
Climo, Jacob J. and Maria G. Cattell, ed. Social Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2002.
Dupre, Judith. Monuments: America’s History in Art and Memory. New York, NY: Random House, 2007.
Edgerton, Gary R. and Peter C. Rollins, ed. Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2001.
Gillis, John R. ed. Commemorations: the Politics of National Identity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Hedrick, Charles W., Jr. Ancient History: Monuments and Documents. Wiley-Blackwell, 2006.
Heller, Allan M. Monuments and Memorials of Washington, D.C.. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2006.
Jacob, Kathryn Allamond. Testament to Union: Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C.. Baltimore, Maryland: The John Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Keister, Douglas. Stories in Stone. Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2004.
Kraft, Robert Nathaniel. Memory Perceived: Recalling the Holocaust. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2002.
La Pierre, Yvette. America’s Monuments, Memorials, and Historic Sites. Lincolnwood, Ill: Publications International, 1996.

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Hufbauer, Benjamin.Presidential Temples: How Memorials and Libraries Shape Public Memory.American Historical Review 2007 112(4): 1221-1222 2p.

Barbee, Matthew Mace.'Memory, Race, and Communal Belonging in Narrative and Art: Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue, 1948-1996'.Dissertation Abstracts International 2007 68(4): 1189-1190-A. DA3260623

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This is a list of the publishing information for articles that I found from Historical Abstracts that looked good or provided good looking models on interpretation of memorials. The actual subjects are not so important, but the articles talk about the meanings of memory at the sites and how the meanings have changed over time.

Gold, John R. and Gold, Margaret M. "The Graves of the Gallant Highlanders: Memory, Interpretation and Narratives of Culloden." History & Memory 2007 19(1): 5-38 34p.

Schleifman, Nurit. "MOSCOW'S VICTORY PARK: A MONUMENTAL CHANGE." History & Memory 2001 13(2): 5-34 30p.

Gordon, Robert S. C. "The Holocaust in Italian Collective Memory: 'Il Giorno Della Memoria,' 27 January 2001." Modern Italy 2006 11(2): 167-188 22p.

Besley, Joanna. "At the Intersection of History and Memory: Monuments in Queensland." Limina 2005 11.

Rountree, Kathryn. "Re-Inventing Malta's Neolithic Temples: Contemporary Interpretations and Agendas." History & Anthropology 2002 13(1): 31-51 21p.

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