Work & Community History Workshop

Links to history on the web

History Web Pages

• Autobiography of Mother Jones.
• Illinois Labor History Society has a web-based curriculum for teachers.
• Bridgeport: Lock Zero. History of a Chicago working-class neighborhood in words and pictures.
• Lucy Parsons web page, a project of the Women's History Information Project.
• Memories of the IWW by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. See also the pamphlet "Sabotage" written by Flynn and published by the IWW in 1916.
• Historical background to Pullman.
• The Dramas of Haymarket. An on-line exhibit of Haymarket materials from the Chicago Historical Society.
• Haymarket Affair Digital Archive.
• Haymarket Massacre Archive (part of the Anarchy Archives).
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930.
• Florence Kelley's Campaign Against Chicago Sweatshops in the 1890s.
• New York City Shirtwaist Strike (1909-10).
• Making of America.
• American Memory.
• The New Deal Network.
• The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit.
• Freedmen and Southern Society Project.
• Labor and the Holocaust at the Tamiment Institute Library.
• The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 at the University of Arizona.
• 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
• Cultural and Labor Studies Sourcebook by James Spady.
• Bridgeport Working: Voices from the 20th Century. From the Bridgeport, Connecticut, Public Library.
• The Emma Goldman Papers.
• Like A Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World.
• Valley of the Shadow.  Two Communities in the American Civil War
• American Antiquarian Society.
• H-Labor Discussion Group.
• LAWCHA. The Labor and Working Class History Association
• California Federation of Teachers, Labor in the Schools Committee, and Bringing Labor into the K-12 Curriculum: Resource Guide for Teachers (available on-line in pdf format).