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Histories from a Historian

23m · Life Preservers: A Podcast About Personal History · 30 Nov 16:41

What was the unlikely alliance between mill girls and factory overseers? Did the immigrants of the 19th century just melt easily into American culture? Labor historian Bob Forrant of UMass Lowell begins this season of storytelling and listening with some stories of his own.

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