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UAW History United Auto Workers. This site presents the United Auto Workers’s own narrative history of the union, divided into seven, chronologically organized sections that begin in 1936 and end in the 1970s. The narrative charts the rise of the union, discussing topics such as company resistance, the struggle for pensions, and UAW participation in civil-rights marches. Several thousand words, the celebratory narrative includes a video, two animated cartoons, and numerous photographs as well as nine audio clips, such as Martin Luther King’s 1961 address to the UAW’s 25th Anniversary celebration. The lively prose here makes a salutary effort to engage readers in questions that will prove unfamiliar to most students. Thus the section, “Can Unions Bargain Over Pensions?,” is not nearly as boring as it perhaps appears. Three additional sections are “coming soon.” Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO, VIDEO. Website last visited on 2000-10-23.
A Short History of American Labor UnionWeb. This site is comprised solely of a 9,000-word essay about the political history of American labor. Adapted from publications by the AFL-CIO, it does not furnish images or primary sources, and ends the narrative in the early 1980s. “This brief history of more than 100 years of the modern trade union movement in the United States can only touch the high spots of activity and identify the principal trends of a ’century of achievement.’ In such a condensation of history, episodes of importance and of great human drama must necessarily be discussed far too briefly, or in some cases relegated to a mere mention.” A useful, if slightly outdated, overview. Resources Available: TEXT. Website last visited on 1998-10-19.
Memories of the IWW by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Eugene W. Plawuik/American Institute for Marxist Studies. Transcription of 30-page address by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn in 1962 at Northern Illinois University discussing memories of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Flynn talked about the Lawrence strike of 1912, Big Bill Haywood, Joe Hill, and the red scare of 1919. The words, music, and sheet music cover for Hill’s song, “The Rebel Girl,” are included in the transcription. The speech is illustrated with four photographs of Flynn, Haywood, and the Lawrence strike and followed by nine questions from the audience and Flynn’s answers. Links throughout the text connect visitors to one to 15 pages of background information on names, events, and themes in Flynn’s speech, but many do not work. A bibliography recommends four books and one movie about Flynn. The site will be interesting for anyone researching Flynn, labor or radicalism in the early 20th century, or the IWW. Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES. Website last visited on 2008-10-14.
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 Vincent Ferraro, Department of International Politics, Mount Holyoke College. Act excluding Chinese laborers, passed in 47th Congress. Resources Available: TEXT. Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
May Day 7–25–00: site does not exist Resources Available: . Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
The Labor Movement various authors, essays written in preparation for the 1996 AP US history exam. Resources Available: TEXT. Website last visited on 2001-09-23.
Paul Robeson Home Page 7–25–00: site does not exist - currently displays a register.com notice. Resources Available: . Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Paul Robeson: Princeton’s Native Son Princeton Public Library. links and a bibliography Resources Available: TEXT. Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
An Eclectic List of Events in U.S. Labor History Allan H. Lutins. This site gives dates and short annotations for numerous important political episodes in American labor history, beginning with the 1806 conviction of the union of Philadelphia Journeymen Cordwainers for striking and finishing with the 1989 Virginia miners strike against Pittson Coal. Useful as a general introduction, the site is necessarily incomplete. Resources Available: TEXT. Website last visited on 2001-07-30.
Along the Chisholm Trail Glen Seeber. Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES. Website last visited on 2001-09-23.
Portraiture in the U.S. Capitol Dan Backer, American Studies Department, University of Virginia. Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES. Website last visited on 2001-09-23.
Through Our Parent’s Eyes: Tucson’s Diverse Community Stuart Glogoff, University of Arizona Libraries; Louise Glogoff, Pima Community College Libraries. The ethnically diverse history of Tucson, Arizona is celebrated here in sections on the Hispanic, Native American, African American, Chinese, and Jewish heritage of the area. A 1000-word essay on the Hispanic history of Tucson is complemented by the four histories, from two to 100 pages, of local families. An exhibit of traditional arts in the Mexican American community includes photographs of houses, piñatas, and ten video clips of low-rider cars. Sources on Native Americans include 12 oral histories (300–600 words), about food and culture. The history of African Americans in the Tucson area from the 16th to the 19th century is recounted in an 1,800-word essay. A collection of 22 biographies (120–800 words) and summarized oral histories offer more personal details of African American life in Tucson. The collection of material about Chinese Americans in Tucson includes four biographies (600–1,200 words) and seven video clips of interviews with a Chinese American woman who grew up in Tucson in the 1940s. The journey made by one Jewish family from Russia in the 19th century to Tucson in the 20th is recounted in a 4,700-word illustrated essay. The site will be useful for research in ethnicity and the history of the west. Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, VIDEO. Website last visited on 2008-10-09.
Historical Census Browser Fisher Library at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. See JAH web review by Clara E. Rodriguez. Reviewed 2008-06-01. Provides data gathered by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research from census records and other government sources for a study entitled “Historical Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790–1970.” For each decade, users can browse extensive population- and economic-oriented statistical information at state and county levels, arranged according to a variety of categories, including place of birth, age, gender, marital status, race, ethnicity, education, illiteracy, salary levels, housing, and specifics dealing with agriculture, labor, and manufacturing. Allows users to select up to 15 variables when conducting searches and displays both raw figures and statistical charts. Categories are inconsistent between census periods and even within particular periods: for example, the database can show that out of 13,604 Bulgarian immigrants living in 1930 in Connecticut, 230 resided in Middlesex County, but it provides no information about Bulgarian immigrants in New Hampshire, Maine, or New York State in the same year. The site includes a 3,750-word essay on the history of American censuses. Although incomplete, this database is a great statistical resource for students of American history.
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1945–1972 U.S. State Department. Published annually by the State Department, Foreign Relations of the United States is the official record of major declassified U.S. foreign policy decisions and diplomatic activity, with material culled from Presidential libraries—including transcripts of tape recordings—and executive departments and agencies. Digitized material does not reflect the full range of published volumes. For the Truman Administration, the site provides “1945–50, Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment.” Three volumes are available for the Eisenhower years, on American republics, Guatemala, and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and Cyprus. The Kennedy Administration is represented by 25 volumes that cover, among other areas, Vietnam, the Cuban missile crisis, the Berlin crisis, and exchanges with Premier Khrushchev. A complete set of 34 volumes is available on the Johnson Administration, and 19 volumes currently are furnished from the Nixon Administration. Fifty-four volumes will eventually be available on the Nixon and Ford administrations. Useful volume summaries provide historical context. FRUS volumes for 1900–1918 (http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/) are described in a separate entry. Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES. Website last visited on 2007-10-23.
ushistory.org Independence Hall Association. Homepage for a handful of colonial and revolutionary war sites. Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES. Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
“Liberty Rhetoric” and 19th-Century American Women Catherine Lavender, College of Staten Island. Prepared by Catherine Lavender, Professor of History at the College of Staten Island, this site teaches students about 19th-century women’s use of “liberty rhetoric,”— the way of speaking about the relationship between the citizen and the state—to argue for their own liberties. The site focuses on three topics. The first section offers seven documents, two poems, and three images depicting origins of liberty rhetoric in the Revolutionary tradition. The second section provides nine documents and five images tracing the operations of the textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, and the liberty rhetoric that the female mill workers used during their strikes in 1834 and 1836. This section also offers a Lowell Girl Pictorial Gallery with ten images of Lowell and the working lives of the young women who flocked to the mill town to experience some measure of autonomy and to earn money in the mills. The third section provides the text of the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments and compares it to the Declaration of Independence as an expression of liberty rhetoric. Also provides five links to other sites, including the Library of Congress National American Women’s Suffrage Association Collection and the Rochester University Susan B. Anthony Center’s History of the Suffrage Movement. This site is easily navigable and provides high-quality primary document case studies on these three events in women’s history. Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES. Website last visited on 2003-11-22.
Chicago Timeline from 1673 Municipal Reference Library, Chicago Public Library. Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES. Website last visited on 2001-09-23.
Oregon Trail Mike Trinklein and Steve Boettcher, Idaho State University. See JAH web review by John Mack Faragher. Reviewed 2001-09-01. This site was created by Idaho State University professors Mike Trinklein and Steve Boettcher as a companion to their PBS documentary, The Oregon Trail. The website describes the history of the Trail and the settlers who used it to migrate to the Oregon Territory beginning in the early 1840s. It is divided into five sections: general information about the history of the Oregon Trail; historic sites along the Trail; facts and statistics; full-text archive; and “Shop the Oregon Trail.” The archive includes full texts of seven diaries, two letters, nine memoirs, and five period books about journeys along the Trail. The site also contains roughly 30 video clips of historians discussing the history of the Trail and a virtual field trip of the Trail’s top sites. There is an online teacher’s guide that was designed as a companion to the documentary video, but its discussion topics and activities can be adapted for classroom use. The site is easy to navigate and has a keyword search feature. Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, VIDEO. Website last visited on 2008-10-08.
Black Archives of Mid-America Black Archives of Mid-America Inc. and Kansas City Public Library. The Black Archives of Mid-America is the largest depository of artifacts documenting the African American experience in the four-state area of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Oklahoma. Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES. Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
