HIST 489 (Fall 2007)
Chloe Quirk went to high school in Mankato Minn. She is currently finishing her history/social science education double major. The first four years of her college career she was busy playing volleyball and traveling around the U.S. This final year of school she plans to be just as busy as the last four working with the volleyball team as a student assistant and finishing her degree.

Prospectus for Paper

Chloe's monument is the Ringling Brothers Circus Monument in Wahepton North Dakota. The monuments commemorates the fallen circus workers that died during a storm. The workers were setting up a tent when a bolt of lighting struck the tent and collapsed. The monument is a replica of the stricken pole, rope, pulley, and chain used to raise the big top tent. Chloe expects to use newspaper articles about the event and any letters or other primary sources she can find. She is going to look at every angle. The secondary sources that she plans to use are books and journals. The Ringling Brothers Circus monument is a forgotten monument created by the people that new the workers.

Required Links

• Research Log for Chloe Quirk

• Bibliography for Chloe Quirk

• Book Review by YourName

Additional Links

Outline

Abstract of Paper

One of the last assignments of the term will be to compose an abstract of the paper you have written.