National Heritage Areas: worth preserving and promoting

01 March 2013 – Eleanor Mahoney 3

Quick – name three National Park Service (NPS) units that commemorate, mark or otherwise emphasize the history of industrial work, or the labor movement in the United States.

Okay – Lowell National Historical Park might come to mind. Anywhere else?

Think. Read More

School to work and back again: On (re)adjusting to academic life

01 June 2012 – Eleanor Mahoney 3

This fall, I began my second stint in graduate school. After earning a M.A. in Public History in 2007 and working for the federal government and a nonprofit organization for four years, I am now back in a university setting, enrolled in an American History PhD program. Read More