Review by Mark Popp

This book recalls the competition among architects to win the right to build the monument in honor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This book would be of interest if a person is researching a monument of architectural significance, as it explains how the two concepts (monuments and architecture) are sometimes combined in the U.S. and other countries.--Tim Haugrud

Great book! Somebody review it.

Review by Kurt Easterday

Review by Tim Haugrud / Review by Jared Sullivan

Review by Cassie Ptacek

Review by Josh Eslinger

Hass writes of the difficulty of memorializing this war because of the controversy. It is unique to other memorials because it does not commemorate a triumph or a part of history Americans are proud of. What most people wanted to remember was not the political ramifications, but the people who died, therefore it becomes an individuated memorial. Making of memorials is a reflection of the relationship between individuals and the nation. Remembering individuals in many increases throughout the twentieth century. Hass notes that the controversy of the war keeps the memory of the dead alive.--Emily Eidsmoe

Somebody review this book!

This book is basically a guide to every monument and marker dealing with Native Americans in the American Midwest. There is a short history of the engagement or people each monument or marker is portraying, along with pictures. It also gives directions for reaching these markers. As a side note, this is definitely a source for Sitting Bull's grave, as it addresses both burial sites.--Cassie Ptacek

Review by Kelly Hansen

Review by Emily Eidsmoe

This book gives brief descriptions of hundreds of historical markers built along the trails all over the U.S., focusing particularly on those built by Mormons. Each entry gives the location, description, and purpose of its specific subject. This book may be used to identify many reasons that might possess people to erect historical markers.--Tim Haugrud

Review by Simon Hochstein

Review by Chris Guler

Somebody review this book!

Review by Matt Spielman

Review by John Andrews

Review by Curtis Johnson

World War Two Memorial: Recuperating Collective Memory is actually the senior project of Gabriel Metz, a 2002 Landscape Architecture student at NDSU. This book is the result of his work in planning a hypothetical WWII monument in Washington D.C. This is a really interesting look at the nuts and bolts kind of work that goes into creating a monument. Not only was Metz concerned with location, materials, and the actual building of the monument, but he was also concerned with making it a place that would touch people's emotions, much like the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C. It provides an interesting viewpoint that might enrich the understanding of a monument.--Cassie Ptacek

Review by Matt Boe

Somebody review this book!

Review by Chloe Quirk

This book is available at the NDSU Institute for Regional Studies; I found it there while working on my WPA tour research. Part 3, pp. 187-212, is devoted to “Monuments and Memorials.” If you’re researching a North Dakota monument, check it out.

Somebody review this book!

Review by Linsey Hillmer

Review by Bill Harris

Review by Erin Neal

Review by Adam Pool

Burk, Adrienne explores how monuments that are built for the same purpose can far apart in meaning. All three monuments were built to recognise violence in the community but one was recognise a very public act committed while the other two where to bring light on the disappearance and brutality of women that was not being checked on by the local police. He explains how they were built by different groups for their own purpose and how monuments are a symbol to those who build them and those they are built for.--Adam Pool

This article was very interesting to me, as it dealt with the possible idea of a Great Plains monument in Southwestern South Dakota. While some of the material seems like Walter P. Webb, it does have some good information about how a monument itself could be created, interestingly enough utilizing animals to showcase the terrain. Cahalane also indicated that there was to be no development in the popular sense of the term. However, I found it a little upsetting that he mentions that even though this area would hold great beauty, people would not like to stay there for long periods of time.--Matt Spielman

This article talks about horse graves throughout the US. There is a heavy emphasis on thoroughbred racing horses and military horses.--Erin Neal

This article described why two identical statues of William Wells were created at Gettysburg and at Burlington, Vermont. Wells is the lowest ranking officer from the Civil War to recieve a statue in his honor, which commemortates his actions at Gettysburg. This is a good article on what Civil War monuments meant to veterans and communities when they were put up.--Matt Boe

This is a short article that spoke of the 1960s rebirth of the historical significance of monuments.--Linsey Hillmer

Somebody check out this article!

This article will be helpful with initial information gathering and for ideas on where you could go to hit those original sources we need if your monument is made of zinc. Otherwise it is a short article telling about the different types of old zinc statues, which small towns purchased after the Civil War, and how they need to be preserved. It mentions many ill-fated attempts to save them, which are sad because I could imagine the small town being heart broken after their hero was destroyed in an attempt to preserve it.--Simon Hochstein

This article tells the story of the Waikiki War Memorial, and how it's creation distorted the factual reality of what it represents, which is the Hawaiian servicemen who died during World War I. This is a very good description of how the collective memory of a people and what the actual facts show for that memory can differ through a monument.--Matt Boe

Somebody check out this article!

Somebody check out this article!

This article discussed how the French began to commemorate their dead. Since the French lost so many men, they felt it was a necessary step to begin doing this.--Matt Spielman

This article discusses the phenomenon of the Vietnam War Memorial. It discusses the wall as focusing on a subversive subject while detailing how it came into being. It also examines how it is an active memorial as people visit it to remember comrades, family members, or to connect in some way with our nation's history.--Mark Popp

See abstract in Dissertation Abstracts

Somebody get this dissertation and give us some notes on it!

This dissertation discussed how American Pentecostals relied on not only collective memory but myth and nostalgia toward racial healing. The Pentecostals look back on the collective memory of the Azusa Street Revival of 1906 to bring back racial reconciliation. In doing this they have made the people of this revival an example to for racial healing today. --- Chloe Quirk

Begins with the widespread impact of WW II in the US, how people at the time either participated in it or felt it, and then the impact as a whole of the victory and sacrifice. The book then discusses the symbolism of the memorial, how it came to rest between the Washington memorial and Lincoln memorial, and how it was designed and came to fruition.--Emily Eidsmoe

Osborne discusses the roles of monuments in the building of a nation and the defining of a people. He says that monuments are used to connect the people to a place and make them feel at home, binding them to the land. He also pushes the idea that monuments provide for an epistemic approach to the landscape. We know what we know about a certain place because the monument is there. He speaks of monuments largely from a national view and uses examples from a Canadian perspective. This article would be a great resource for anyone researching a monument that was created by a group hoping to express/inspire national pride. It also includes a large bibliography with many references that focus specifically on monuments. --Josh Eslinger

Savage, author also of a book-length study of war monuments of the 19th century, here summarizes the scholarly literature in a historiographic essay. He notes that “the academic literature on commemoration has mushroomed in the past twenty years, constituting a “memory boom” in the academy. The origins of scholarly interest in collective memory, he notes, are in European literature. American interest along these lines was inspired particularly by the commemoration of the Holocaust and the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Savage cites, summarizes, and evaluates a wealth of literature—work that will be invaluable for this seminar. He largely confines his attention to books, without much sense of the article literature.--Tom Isern

• Research Log

• Bibliography

• Book Review

• Outline
  

• Linsey Hilmer on the GAR monument in Grand Forks
• Matt Spielman on the GAR monument in Fargo
• Johs Eslinger on the Spanish-American War monument in Kindred

• Kurt Easterday on the Lincoln monument in Hillsboro
• Mark Popp on the Statue of Liberty replica in Fargo
• Kelly Hansen on the Nicollet Tower near Sisseton

• Matt Boe on Noble's Golden Marguerite at NDSU
• Adam Pool on the Budd Reeve monument in Buxton
• Chloe Quirk on the circus worker monument in Wahpeton

• Dress rehearsal (be prepared to read a bit of your paper, say a little into the second page, and also to introduce a presenter)
• Course evaluations
• Follow-up appointments

• Paper submissions
• Editing appointments
• Planning of paper presentations

• 14 November we will meet to make definite plans for paper presentations
• No class on Thanksgiving Wednesday
• 28 November we will have a sort of dress rehearsal for paper presentations
• First week of December I will be out of town

• Appoint a scribe for today
• Book reviews: status reports, scheduling, wrapping up
• Report on Burke by Eslinger
• Report on Kammen by Easterday
• Discussion of prospectus
• Status of secondary research
• Status of primary research – reports & advice
• Site visits
• Research logs
• Bibliographies

• Scribe for this week & last
• Book reviews (progress, appointments, final drafts, posting)
• Paper topics - get them pinned down
• GRHS essay competition
• History Department Colloquia
• Report on McNeill by Pool
• Report on Appleby by Quirk
• Appoint reporter for Burke
• Appoint reporter for Kammen
• Progress in secondary research (building bibliography)
• Getting started on primary research
• Site visit forms

• Appoint a scribe for today (thanks to Mark, scribe for last week)
• Revisit book review due dates and scheduling of editing
• Claim or assign topics for papers
• Secondary research: note article postings, where are the rest? Also note matters of style
• Report on Carr by Linsey Hillmer
• Report on Becker by Matt Spielman
• Recruit discussants for McNeill and Appleby
• Exercise, "Going to the Source"
• Early stages of primary research

• Matt Boe would like to claim the Noble’s Golden Marguerite Monument (the one about the cow) on NDSU as his own.
• Matt Spielman would like to claim the Grand Army of the Republic Monument in Fargo as his own.
• Linsey Hillmer would like to claim the Grand Army of the Republic Monument in Grand Forks as her own.
• Mark Popp would like to claim the topic of the Statue of Liberty replica on the Red River bridge in Fargo as his own.
• Kurt Easterday would like to claim the topic of Abraham Lincoln Statue in Hillsboro as his own.
• Adam Pool would like to claim the topic of Budd Reeves Memorial Cairn in Buxton as his own.
• Chloe Quirk would like to claim the topic Ringling Brothers Circus Monument in Whapeton as her own.
• Kelly Hansen would like to claim the topic of the Nicollet Tower in Sisseton as his own.
• Josh Eslinger would like to claim the topic of the Spanish War monument in Kindred as his own.

• Appoint a scribe for today
• Revisit the assessment sheets
• Check progress with Herodotus (accounts opened, pages established)
• Reminder: check out Hardhat History
• Reminder: check out CHR website, especially Remembrance in Stone
• Spielman reports on Webb
• Hansen reports on Humboldt
• Recruit reporters on Carr and Becker
• Review the calendar
• Assign book reviews
• Go over book review specs
• Assign paper topics
• Organize secondary research

• ODIN @ North Dakota State University
• ODIN @ State Historical Society of North Dakota
• ODIN @ University of North Dakota
• Library of Congress Database

• Research Log for Kelly Hansen
  

• Bibliography for Kelly Hansen
  

• Book Review by Kelly Hansen
  

• Research Log of Linsey Hillmer

• Bibliography of Research by Linsey Hillmer

• Book Review by Linsey Hillmer