Associate Professor Peter Holloran

B.A., Suffolk University;
M.A. and Ph.D., Boston University.

Area of Specialization: 19th Century American Social History; Massachusetts History.

Publications:
Historical Dictionary of New England (Scarecrow Press, 2004); Boston’s Wayward Children: Social Services for Homeless Children, 1830-1930 (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1994).

Articles:
Alan Watts, Dictionary of American Biography; Orphanages,
Oxford Companion to American History;
L. L. Bean, Arthur Fiedler and Thomas H. Perkins, American National Biography;
James Michael Curley, Encyclopedia of New England Culture;
Francis Parkman, Encyclopedia of Historians;
Daniel Webster, Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia;
'70s Lifestyles, American Decades, 1970-1979;
Muddy Waters, Popular Musicians;
Yogi Berra, Encyclopedia of Sports History;
William Monroe Trotter, W.E.B. Du Bois Encyclopedia;
Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, James Cagney, American Popular Culture Encyclopedia; and
Mack Sennett, St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture.

Professional Activities: Secretary and Newsletter Editor, New England Historical Association; Book Review Editor, The Journal of Popular Culture; Board of Directors, American Culture Association.

Executive Secretary, Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association.

Board of Editors, H-Net Discussion Lists for H-TEACH and H-SHGAPE

Prof. Holloran's Courses