HIST: U.S. History Websites

Topic Guide

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations is the largest federation of unions in the United States.

Features resources designed by teachers. Not the most accessible layout, but includes many primary and secondary source materials.

A historical look at child labor through primary sources, and the struggle to abolish it in the early 20th cent.

Primary source photographs with captions. Organized by industry.

Huge list of online documents. news clippings, images and articles on labor history.

Huge site of online primary, secondary and reference links. Divided by accessible categories.

Searchable/Browseable site of primary source material covering unions, campaigns, strikes in US history.

Timeline and overview of Labor/Worker's rights in history. Provides primary sources as well.

Primary source guide looking at the history of women and their struggle to work in male-dominated areas.

Access to digitized books, manuscripts and images from the collections of Harvard University Libraries and Museums on women in the U.S. economy from 1870-1930. Searchable, or browsable by topic, individual, dates and events, or organization

From the U.S. Gov - Provides overviews, data, fact sheets and more. Browse by specific categories.

Contemporary (1894 - 1921) articles on Debs covering the Pullman Strike, political views and prison sentence.

Primary source accounts from those who worked with Cesar Chavez to build the farmworker movement (1962-1993).

Presents images of key documents and artifacts in their historical context. Includes trial documents, broadsides, photos and more

Digital Resource providing overview, primary sources and historical analysis.

Contemporary newspaper articles on Pullman Porters, former slaves hired to work on sleeping cars