Our collections are being digitized and made available through our website, OCLC WorldCat, Internet Archive, Digital Commonwealth, and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
Search the Lawrence History Center Photograph Collection (partial) containing photographs from 1845 to present, which chronicle the history of the people and places of Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Our collections are being digitized and made available through our website, OCLC WorldCat, Internet Archive, Digital Commonwealth, and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
Once called “the strike heard round the world,” the first major labor dispute in the U.S. auto industry ended after General Motors signed a contract with the United Auto Workers Union on February 11, 1937.
The Bracero History Archive collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. Millions of Mexican agricultural workers crossed the border under the program to work in more than half of…
A gallery of photos to explore.
Women Have Always Worked: Fighting for Equality: 1950–2018.
An exploration from an online edX course.
When Teachers Mobilize Oral Histories
Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City. Over the next twenty years, it grew into a collection of over 60,000 “ephemeral” (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. In 2002, the film collection was acquired by the Library of Congress,…
Part of the City University of New York, the American Social History Project is a recognized leader in effective, engaging history education. Who Built America Badges for History Education is designed for Grade 7-12 teachers
Interactive maps covering campaigns, strikes, arrests and events involving IWW.
This project, directed by Peter Cole of Western Illinois University and Franklin N. Cosey-Gay of the hicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention, is working to document and commemorate the 1919 riot with an online exhibit that includes biographies of those killed. Visit site
