“No Avenging Gibbet”: The 1860 Pemberton Mill Collapse

Robert Forrant is Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Principal historian on numerous projects funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Lowell National Historical Park, and the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, he has published extensively on industrial, immigration, and labor history. His newest book,Where are the Workers?: Interpreting Labor and Working-Class History at Museums and Historic Sites, with Mary Anne Trasciatti, was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2022.