In The Lowell Experiment, historian Cathy Stanton explores the ways in which public historians at Lowell National Historic Park (NHP) have engaged with their work and what factors have limited those engagements, beginning with an explanation of the historical perspectives adopted at the Park. There, the story presented does two things: It asserts a direct, …
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