Unbroken Bonds Creative Team

Tsongas Industrial History Center

• Kristin Gallas, Project Manager for Education Development (University of Massachusetts Lowell)

• MaryBeth Faucher, Education Ranger (Lowell National Historical Park)

• Dr. Sheila Kirschbaum, Director (University of Massachusetts Lowell)

Lowell National Historical Park

• Dr. Sarah Buchmeier, Mellon Humanities Fellow

Project Historians

• Dr. Gregory "Gray" Fitzsimons, Research Associate, Saab Center for Portuguese Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell

• Dr. Elizabeth Herbin-Triant, Associate Professor of Black Studies and History, Amherst College

Advisors

• Dr. Robert Forrant, Distinguished University Professor in History, University of Massachusetts Lowell

• Rob DeLossa, Head of Social Studies Department, Lowell High School

• Maritza Grooms, Community Educator

• Barbara Justice, Interpretation and Education Manager, Cane River Creole National Historic Site, Louisiana

• Shawn Quigley, Ranger, Boston African American National Historic Site

• Dr. Seth Rockman, Associate Professor of History, Brown University

• Adda Santos, Social Studies teacher, Somerville High School

• Jennifer Steele, Ranger, Boston African American National Historic Site

• Gabe Swanger, Social Studies teacher, Needham High School

Special Thanks To

• Boston Public Library

• Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell

• Houghton Library, Harvard University

• Lowell National Historical Park

• Massachusetts Historical Society

• MassHumanities

• Patricia D. Klingenstein Library, New York Historical Society

• Oren Fryns, University of Massachusetts Lowell

• Pollard Memorial Library, Lowell

"Unbroken Bonds" was based on the Tsongas Industrial History Center's publication "Cotton, Cloth, and Conflict: The Meaning of Slavery in a Northern Textile City," written by Dr. Gray Fitzsimons and Dr. Sheila Kirschbaum (2000).