The Gilder Lehrman
Institute of American History
| The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History offers a variety of excellent curriculum resources to assist teachers including lesson plans, quizzes and activities as well as documents, films, songs and historic images. Their materials take the history standards into consideration. Below are a number or labor-related materials. |
The Great Railroad Strike of 1894
Post World War I Labor Tensions
The Wagner Act
Roll Out the Pickets - Song Lyrics
The CIO
John L. Lewis: Coal Miners Hero
Bill Knox Advises Young Laborers About Unions
Savage Blames Labor Unions for the Great Depression
Songs and Yells of the Steelworkers
An Elevator Strike
Jim Cole, African-American Packinghouse Worker
A Mexican-American Laborer and Labor Organizer in Chicago
The UAW Sit-Down Strike
The Trade Union Woman
The Workers’ Anvil (Song)
George Estes and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers
