blog navigation

Illinois Featured Content

blog posts

  • Professor, students develop National Park Service Books to Parks websites

    Feb 10, 2025 10:15 am by Jodi HeckelOutreach
    The latest Books to Parks website features “Lyddie,” a children’s book about a young girl working in the textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts. Pictured, the Weave Room at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum, Lowell National Historical Park. Credit: Courtesy National Park Service

    Images

    Professor Schwebel’s collaboration with the park service came about through her research examining widely taught works of children’s historical fiction  and the role they play in shaping children’s ideas about U.S. history. 

    stats

      additional actions