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Democracy in America: Alexis de Tocqueville
American Studies Program, University of Virginia.
A product of the American Studies program at the University of Virginia, this site attempts to “construct a virtual American ca. 1831–32”—the period that Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville visited the United States—in order to illuminate
Democracy in America, his classic examination of political and social life in the young nation. The book is still regarded by some scholars as the greatest ever written about the United States. The site presents a hypertext version of the book—one translation among many—accompanied by 13 projects on topics such as Tocqueville’s sources and the 1840 Census, race relations, fashion, religion, women, art, navigation, and humor. These projects are uneven in quality, though a few—such as the navigation projects—provide useful primary material and worthwhile background texts. Overall, the character of the site seems somewhat ad hoc.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-08.
Andrew Jackson
Internet Public Library.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
The Harlem Renaissance
The Circle Association.
A page created and maintained by the Circle Association, “a group of African American men practicing, and dedicated to, the quality of life, successful manhood and parenting, economic growth and development, and the pursuit of excellence and spiritual development.” Includes text “adapted” from Nathan Huggins book on the Harlem Renaissance, to poetry, performing arts, and jazz essays, photographs, and links to pages devoted to Marcus Garvey and Jean Toomer pages.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 2000-10-05.
Hard Hat Riots: An Online History Project
Karl Miller, Ellen Noonan, and John Spencer.
A well-designed and innovative approach to teaching history, this site, designed by three Ph.D. candidates at New York University, presents multifaceted perspectives on the May 8, 1970, attacks in New York City on Vietnam War protesters by hundreds of construction workers. Users can enter the site by selecting any of 12 photographs, nine newspaper headlines, three places in the city where rioting occurred, or 10 summaries of views on the events and their meaning by historians and journalists. Selected items link to additional resources, including a police report and interviews with a student and a construction worker. The creators challenge users to fit the riots into wider contexts and to assess variant attempts at historical understanding. Offers about a dozen suggested activities for high school and college teachers. Though limited in scope and quantity of material, this site is of great value to those studying social class in the Vietnam War era, labor history, and media influence in American life.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2003-11-28.
The Samuel Gompers Papers
University of Maryland-College Park Department of History.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University.
See JAH web review by Ellen Wiley Todd.
Reviewed 2001-06-01.
On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City causing the deaths of 148 garment workers—an event that came to be known as one of the hallmark tragedies of the industrial age. This website tells the story of the fire in six chapters: Introduction; Sweatshops and Strikes; Fire; Mourning and Protest; Relief Work; and Investigation, Trial, and Reform. The text, targeted to a middle and high school student audience, is accompanied by numerous primary sources that could be of use to more advanced researchers. These include close to 70 photographs, 18 newspaper articles, 17 testimonials, three oral histories, excerpts from investigative reports written in the years following the fire, several letters from witnesses, a lecture given by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins in 1964, and a radio drama re-enacting the event. Accompanying these primary sources is a list of victims and witnesses, a selected bibliography of works surrounding the fire, and tips for writing a student paper.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO.
Website last visited on 2007-10-28.
The Haymarket Massacre Archive
Dr. Dana Ward, PhD., Professor of Political Studies, Pitzer College.
5–30–99: many of the links are broken—should we keep this? 7–25–00: some links are still broken, although the majority of the site works - has some primary documents scanned.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
The Long Dark Ride of George Pullman
Discovery Communications, Inc. (The Discovery Channel), Michael J. Weiss.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Lower Manhattan Project: Observations of Life on the Lower East Side at the Turn of the Century
William Crozier, Clarke Chambers, Patrick Costello, Chad Gaffield, Beverly Stadium.
Presents 19 first-hand observations of everyday life in Lower Manhattan from the 1880s to the 1920s. Designed to supplement a college course, the site offers articles from popular magazines, government reports, and an exhibit on tenements. Authors include reformers such as Lillian Brandt, Jacob Riis, and William Dean Howells writing sympathetically about housing, immigration, poverty, work, and other features of urban life. A 300-word essay introduces the materials, which should prove especially useful for students interested in urban history.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2003-11-24.
Triangle Strike and Fire
John McClymer, Department of History, Assumption College.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2000-09-19.
Child Labor in America, 1908–1912: Photographs of Lewis W. Hine
The History Place.
Furnishes 64 photographs taken by Lewis W. Hine (1874–1940) between 1908 and 1912 that document American children working in mills, mines, streets, and factories, and as “newsies,” seafood workers, fruit pickers, and salesmen. Also includes photos of immigrant families and children’s “pastimes and vices.” Provides original captions by Hine—one of the most influential photographers in American history—that call attention to exploitative and unhealthy conditions for laboring children. Also includes a 750-word background essay that introduces both Hine and the history of child labor in the United States. A valuable collection of material for those studying the history of documentary photography, urban history, labor history, and the social history of the Progressive era.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2007-10-22.
A. Philip Randolph
WETA and PBS Online.
contains information about the labor and civil rights activist and the television program produced by PBS (with a few suggested discussion questions). 1963 March on Washington.
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Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Ohio State University Department of History.
This collection about coal mining in the 19th century consists of 17 separate pages, mostly containing primary source material, produced between 1869 and 1904, about coal mining and mining disasters. Material includes a 600-word essay on the dangers of coal mining, an account of an 1869 cave-in, Stephen Crane’s 1894 article, “In the Depths of a Coal Mine,” eight photographs of coal miners from 1904, and a 30-page account of labor violence written by a Pinkerton agent in 1894. A page about mining machinery offers four study questions for student visitors. The site will be useful for those studying 19th-century coal mining and labor issues.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2008-10-09.
They Remember Girdler
subset of larger page on howard fast—not well organized but might be useful server might just be down—check again 7–25–00 - I think the new link is: http://www.trussel.com/hf/girdler.htm
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Labor and Its Times
Knoxville Newspaper Guild.
This site—a creation of the Knoxville Newspaper Guild—examines “labor’s illustrious past and the special men and women who not only fought for the rights of their readers, but for the rights of their fellow journalists as well.” It furnishes a 950-word essay, “Heywood Broun and The Newspaper Guild”; and a 1,000-word essay, “Labor’s Lessons from the Past.” No primary sources or images. A modest contribution.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 1998-10-19.
Federal Labor Laws
Congressional Digest and The English Server, Carnegie Mellon University.
short descriptions of 20th century U.S. labor laws.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
The Pullman Strike
J. Quinn Brisben.
Resources Available: TEXT.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
