Name: Who Built America?
Uploaded: 2025-03-19T13:30:12-04:00
Channel: JDavidson
Description: Digital collection. A project by the American Social History Project (ASHP) that aims to revitalize interest in history by challenging traditional ways of learning about the past, focusing on the working men and women who shaped U.S. history.

Who Built America?

Digital collection. A project by the American Social History Project (ASHP) that aims to revitalize interest in history by challenging traditional ways of learning about the past, focusing on the working men and women who shaped U.S. history.

Who Built America? is an open-access digital collection that surveys the nation’s past to show the role that working people played in the making of the modern United States 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Explore more than 2000 historical documents in the History Matters Repository, read Historians Disagree essays written by prominent scholars, watch documentary films, and take A Closer Look at select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.

[Description adapted from the digital collection’s website.]

Watch the Who Built America? retrospective documentary below.