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EH.Net
"...to assist economists, historians and related social scientists through the use of electronic communication and information technology. EH.Net currently operate file servers in Economic History and the History of Economics. We also provide several free electronic discussion lists to provide resources and promote communication among scholars and students in business history, economic history, the history of economics, and related fields. Server resources and list topics are international in scope, and promote scholarly communication among a large audience of professionals with similar interests."

  • Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History
    "...is designed to provide students and laymen with high quality reference articles in the field. Articles for the Online Encyclopedia are written by experts, screened by a group of authorities, and carefully edited. A distinguished Advisory Board recommends entry topics, assists in the selection of authors, and defines the project's scope."
  • History of Economics
    "...provides online access to resources for teaching, scholarship and research in the history of economics and the history of economic thought."

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The Bisbee Deportation of 1917
A University of Arizona Library Web Exhibit
"The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 was an event specific to Arizona that influenced the labor movement throughout the United States. What started as a labor dispute between copper mining companies and their workers turned into vigilante action against the allegedly nefarious activities of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.). This site is a research-based collection of primary and secondary sources for the study of the deportation of over 1,000 striking miners from Bisbee on 12 July, 1917...Materials include I.W.W. publications, personal recollections, newspaper articles, court records, government reports, correspondence, and journal articles that are part of the collections of three libraries: The University of Arizona Library, the Arizona Historical Society, Tucson, Arizona, and the Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott, Arizona.

British Library of Political & Economic Science (LSE)

Chicago Anarchists on Trial : Evidence from the Haymarket Affair, 1874-1887
"This collection showcases more than 3,800 images of original manuscripts, broadsides, photographs, prints and artifacts relating to the Haymarket Affair. The violent confrontation between Chicago police and labor protesters in 1874 proved to be a pivotal setback in the struggle for American workers' rights...Of special interest and significance are the two dozen images of three-dimensional artifacts, including contemporary Chicago Police Department paraphernalia, labor banners, and an unexploded bomb casing given to juror J. H. Brayton by State's Attorney Julius Grinnell. The cornerstone is the presentation, as images and searchable text, of the transcript of the 3,200 pages of proceedings from the murder trial of State of Illinois v. August Spies, et al."
American Memory, Library of Congress

Commanding Heights - PBS Online
The Battle for the World Economy
Accompanying web site to the three-part PBS series aired April 2002.
"The purpose of this site is to promote better understanding of the current global economic system; the forces, values, and perceptions which shape it and the circumstances under which it has evolved to its present state."
Sections include Storyline ; Key Events ; Countries ; People ; Ideas ; Discuss ; Educators' Guide ; Resources.

Current Value of Old Money
"A frequent question is "how much would a specified amount of money at a certain period of time be worth today?" The sources listed below are useful in attempting to answer this question. They are not about the value of old coins and banknotes."
By Roy Davies

Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada
By the Society of American Archivists, Business Archives Section

Dutch National Accounts, 1800-1913
National Accounts of the Netherlands

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

  • Historical Statistics on Banking
    "...provides annual statistical information on the banking industry beginning in 1934. These data can be used to identify and analyze long-term trends and to develop benchmarks to evaluate the current condition of the banking and thrift industries... The HSOB contains aggregated data from individual financial reports filed by FDIC-insured commercial banks and savings institutions. These aggregated data are also available for individual states, U.S. territories and U.S. possessions."

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

The Flint Sit-Down Strike Audio Gallery
"The Flint Sit-Down Strike website is a multi-media rich resource devoted to several purposes: 1. To provide an introduction to the sit-down strike for those students or members of the general public who are unaware of the history of this momentous event in American history. 2. To provide an immediacy and personal touch to this historical knowledge through the use of digitized audio files, which contain the actual voices of former sit-downers reminiscing about their experiences. 3. To make a site that was usable on several levels of interactivity, with information and sound files accessible through several different galleries, a Flash-generated map, a timeline, and various search functions. 4. To preserve the interviews done by Leighton etal. in a form that was relatively permanent and easily accessible."
- HistoricalVoices.org

Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516
"The Gazetteer is a catalogue of markets and fairs in medieval England and Wales. This is the first comprehensive national survey ... The Gazetteer is a major reference work which it is hoped will become a primary research tool for historians, historical geographers and economists. The Gazetteer will also be of use to non-professionals, for example those interested in local studies. It aims to provide as much information as possible regarding the establishment and operation of markets and fairs from c.900 onwards. The appeal of the Gazetteer will extend beyond those interested in the medieval period, as the markets and fairs established at this time formed the core of the network which survived into the sixteenth century and beyond."
Compiled by Dr. Samantha Letters, Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research

"Guide to Sources of Information on Foreign Investment in Spain 1780-1914" - (dead link) [.pdf]
Compiled by Theresa Tortella

HarpWeek - 19th Century Advertising History
"A taste of the Advertisements found on the pages of Harpers Weekly 1857-1872."

Harvard Business School - (dead link)

  • Baker Library - (dead link)
    • Online Catalog
    • Baker Library Historical Collections - (dead link)
      • 19th Century American Trade Card - (dead link)
        "...cataloging and digitization of 1,000 trade cards that are representative of our collections and of the genre itself."
      • Unheard Voices: American Women in the Emerging Industrial and Business Age - (dead link)
        "A Survey of the Baker Manuscript Collections for the Role of Women in Business, 1700-1920."
        "The online guide that follows is the first of these research tools to be available to scholars, providing both information on the materials that were identified within the manuscript collections, as well as a bibliography of secondary resources."

Historical United States Census Data Browser
"The data and terminology presented in the Historical Census Browser are drawn directly from historical volumes of the U.S. Census of Population and Housing."

Industrial Hamilton [Canada] - A Trail to the Future
"Hamilton progressed from having small industrial workshops at mid-[19th]century to having large, nationally important factories at the beginning of the twentieth century to having the most technologically advanced modern industry at the beginning of the twenty-first century."
Hamilton Public Library & Canada's Digital Collections

Medicine and Madison Avenue
"This website explores the complex relationships between modern medicine and modern advertising, or "Madison Avenue," as the latter is colloquially termed. The Medicine and Madison Avenue Project presents images and database information for approximately 600 health-related advertisements printed in newspapers and magazines. These ads illustrate the variety and evolution of marketing images from the 1910s through the 1950s. The collection represents a wide range of products such as cough and cold remedies, laxatives and indigestion aids, and vitamins and tonics, among others. In addition to the advertisements themselves, the MMA website includes historical material -- non-graphical text-only documents -- that put health-related advertising into a broader perspective."
A project of the Digital Scriptorium and the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History, and Special Collections Library, Duke University

[Mills, John Stuart] John Stuart Mill Links - (dead link)
Sections include: Writings by JSM ; Writings about JSM ; Reviews ; General Sites.
Maintained by Pablo Stafforini

Mountain Men and the Fur Trade
Sources of the History of the Fur Trade in the Rocky Mountain West
"The ultimate goal for this web site is to provide a virtual research center for Western Fur Trade History. The main focus is the Mountain Men in the United States Rocky Mountain region in the period from 1800-50. The first priority is to provide an e-text collection of the most important historical source materials."

National Library and Archives of Canada
  • Canadian War Industry During the Second World War
    "Welcome to the War Records-Manufacturing (WRM) series of photographs. On this website you will find images of black and white photographs taken during the Second World War by the Wartime Information Board, whose photographic operations were later transferred to the National Film Board. This series spans seven years, from 1939 to 1945, and documents the roles of Canadian civilians in the Second World War industrial effort.

Netherlands Historical Data Archive - (dead link)

New York University Libraries - Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

  • An Eyewitness to Labor History 1948-1975
    "Often referred to as 'labor's photographer,' Sam Reiss used his camera to capture historic events that shaped American labor...In the 1980s, Sam Reiss's family donated the photographs assembled for the 1975 exhibit, as well as some 80,000 negatives--most of Reiss's life work--to the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. The 128 photographs selected for this online exhibition of Reiss's images represent only a tiny fraction of this , yet they suggest the scope and richness of Reiss's work."
  • Labor & The Holocaust: The Jewish Labor Committee And The Anti-Nazi Struggle
    "This exhibit presents a portfolio of a hundred photographs and documents from the JLC Collection. The text has been adapted from an article by JLC archivist Gail Malmgreen, originally published in Labor's Heritage (October 1991). The exhibit's seven pictorial sections take the viewer on a chronological journey, from the origins of the JLC, through its anti-Nazi activity of the 1930s, to early rescue efforts and wartime assistance to the anti-Nazi Underground, and then examines three aspects of postwar aid and reconstruction. A final section offers a bibliography of resources for further study."
Ohara Institute for Social Research, Hosei University
  • Oisr.org Poster Exhibit
    Images of Japanese Labor and Social Movement in the Post-1945 Japan
    "Ohara Institute for Social Research owns about 1400 posters of labor and social movements in the post-1945 period. Many of the posters are those in the second half of the 1940s and the 1950s when labor unions, legalized for the first time in 1945, engaged in intense struggles with employers and the government in order to win better wages and working conditions. We present 200 of our 1400 collection in the "slide show format" (each poster is shown for 12 seconds). Posters are classified by the names of confederations and by industries. We translated into English titles and organizations of about 80 percent of the presented posters

PBS - Wide Angle - The Empty ATM (August 2002)
The Argentina Economic Crisis
"What is Argentina's lesson for other advanced capitalists democracies?"
Sections include: Intro ; Photo Essay ; Timeline ; Info-Graphic ; Resources ; Classroom Connection ; Interview with Fmr. World Bank Chief Economist Joseph Stigltiz ;

PC Magazine - 20 Year Anniversary (March 2002)

Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
"...assembles a wide array of Library of Congress source materials from the 1920s that document the widespread prosperity of the Coolidge years, the nation's transition to a mass consumer economy, and the role of government in this transition...The collection is particularly strong in advertising and mass-marketing materials and will be of special interest to those seeking to understand economic and political forces at work in the 1920s."
American Memory, Library of Congress

Records in the National Archives: Pacific Sierra Region for the Study of Labor and Business History
"One of the National Archives and Records Administration's 13 regional archives, it maintains historical records of Federal agencies in northern California, Hawaii, Nevada (except Clark County), American Samoa, and the Pacific Trust Territories."

The Rockefellers
Includes film transcript, primary sources, teacher's guide, bibliography, maps, timeline.
American Experience - PBS Online

Russell Sage Foundation

Slavery Era Insurance Registry
"[I]nsurance policies from the slavery era have been discovered in the archives of several insurance companies, documenting insurance coverage for slaveholders for damage to or death of their slaves, issued by a predecessor insurance firm. These documents provide the first evidence of ill-gotten profits from slavery, which profits in part capitalized insurers whose successors remain in existence today." SB2199 Sec. 1(a).
Gov. Davis signed the bill into law in September 2000.
"...links to the Departmentís report to the California Legislature describing the information received from insurers in response to this statute, including the database of slave and slaveholder names and identifying information."
- California Dept. of Insurance

Traders: Voices from the Trading Post
 A wonderful multimedia history of Indian traders primarily on the Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni reservations.
The highlight is their on-going collection of oral history interviews.
Cline Library Special Collections and Archives, Northern Arizona University

Union Songs
"For 2 centuries people across the world have built unions. This site documents the songs and poems that they made in the process, union songs. It also includes songs and poems that are being written today, as the process of union building continues."
By Mark Gregory

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

  • The Slave Trade Archives Project
    "is concerned with the access to and preservation of original archive materials relating to the slave trade...The countries foreseen as participating in the project at this stage are: Angola, Benin, Brazil, Cameroon, CÙte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, HaÔti, Mozambique, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Senegal, and Togo."

University of Oxford - Department of Economic and Social History

USA 1840-1960: Trade Unionism
Includes biographies, organizations, journals, history and issues.
- Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia

Vermont Public Radio

VOAHA: The Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
California State University, Long Beach
"This site provides access to the full audio recordings of oral histories that have been deposited in Special Collections of the University Library - enabling you, the user, to hear the voice, pitch, and rhythm of the narrations as well as the emotions these convey. You will hear the actual spoken words of oral history narrators, rather than seeing a written version of them in the form of a transcript...Presently, more than three hundred hours of Los Angeles basin oral histories in women's, labor history and Long Beach area history are available online, including forty hours of interviews with California women who were rank and file activists in the national suffrage movement."

Women's Labor History
Sections include: General Women's Labor History Links ; Women's Trade Union League ; Mother Jones and Other Women in the Mines ; Textile and Garment Industries ; Wobbly Women ; Other Famous Women in Labor History ; Women's Labor Songs - Lyrics ; Women's History - General.

Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting
"...presents 470 interview excerpts and 3882 photographs from the Working in Paterson Folklife Project of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The four-month study of occupational culture in Paterson, New Jersey, was conducted in 1994. Paterson is considered to be the cradle of the Industrial Revolution in America...The online presentation also includes interpretive essays exploring such topics as work in the African-American community, a distinctive food tradition (the Hot Texas Wiener), the ethnography of a single work place (Watson Machine International), business life along a single street in Paterson (21st Avenue), and narratives told by retired workers.
American Memory, Library of Congress

WWW Virtual Library: Labour and Business History
One of the best of the WWW VL sites.
Includes extensive resources on Organizations, Institutions, Resources, Journals, Conferences, Exhibitions, Profiles, Reference, and more.
Maintained by the Netherlands Economic History Archive

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