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Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s History

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Who Built America? surveys the nation’s past to show the role that working people played in the making of modern America and the transformations wrought by the changing nature and forms of work. Explore more than 2000 historical documents in the History Matters Repository, read Historians Disagree essays written by prominent scholars, watch documentary films, and take A Closer Look at select topics. Use My WBA? to create shareable collections for use as course packets, assignments, or presentations. Produced by the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Image: Rohr Barn Raising, 1888, from the collection of The Massillon Museum

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Image: Rohr Barn Raising, 1888, from the collection of The Massillon Museum

Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s History

 

My WBA?

Introducing the My WBA? Collection Tool - Coming Soon!

My WBA? allows readers to customize and share the resources on this site for use in presentations, teaching, reading and discussion groups. Sign in to create an account, then create as many collections as needed using the + plus sign to add items to a collections.  Text files and notes can be included in a collection and collections items can be arranged and edited. Each collection creates a discrete url that can be shared with others.

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