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

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 Explore more than 2000 historical documents in the History Matters Repository, read Historians Disagree essays written by prominent scholars, watch documentary films, and take A Closer Look at select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. 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