National park curator talk set March 30

10:24 a.m., March 23, 2004--Carolyn M. Goldstein, UD alumna and curator at the Lowell National Historical Park, will discuss “Industrial History and the Post-Industrial Public: Lowell National Historical Park at a Crossroads,” at 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 30, in 203 Munroe Hall, as part of the History Workshop in Technology, Society and Culture lecture series.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Goldstein is the author of “Do It Yourself: Home Improvement in 20th-Century America,” (1998), the catalog that accompanied the exhibit of the same name at the National Building Museum, in Washington, D.C.

She also has worked on a variety of public history projects, including Whole Cloth, a high school curriculum project developed by the Society for the History of Technology. Her dissertation about home economics and American consumers will be published by the University of North Carolina Press.

Goldstein earned her master’s and doctoral degrees in history at UD.

Lowell National Historical Park, one of 387 units of the National Park Service, preserves and interprets the history of the American Industrial Revolution in Lowell, Mass. The park includes historic cotton textile mills, 5.6 miles of power canals, operating gatehouses and worker housing.

The Hagley Program alumni season talk is sponsored by UD’s Department of History. For more information, call 831-2371.

Article by Jerry Rhodes

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