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Mark is an historian from Massachusetts. He works as a Park Ranger at Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park, a bi-state unit of the National Park Service. Mark specializes in the American Civil War and Reconstruction eras. He is passionate about the history of labor and American industrialization.