- 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco
- Images and history. - 1919 Chicago Race Riots (4)
- Learn about the 1919 Chicago Race Riots, a major racial conflict which began in Chicago on July 27, 1919. Sites offer history, riot events, newspaper accounts, articles, pictures, maps, and the role of white gangs in the 5-day rioting which claimed many lives and rendered hundreds homeless.
- 1919 World Series@
- America at Work, America at Leisure
- This Library of Congress American Memory features motion pictures from 1894 to 1915 of a broad range of work, school, and leisure activities in the U.S. at the turn of the century. - Child Labor in America 1908-1912
- Investigative photos with Lewis W. Hine's original commentary. - Eastland Disaster of 1915@
- Learn about S.S. Eastland, the passenger ship which listed and rolled over in the Chicago River due to overcrowding in 1915. Sites offer background information, pictures, list of victims, and history of mutinies that occurred aboard the ship from its commissioning till its fateful drowning.
- Great Molasses Flood@
- Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904
- About the film library collection held by the Library of Congress. - Ludlow Massacre@
- Nineteen Nineteen: The Boston Police Strike in the Context of American Labor
- Undergraduate essay by Zachary Moses Schrag. - Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (5)
- Learn about Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, the 1911 factory fire in New York City which killed many women garment workers through sites with history, images, and background info about the industrial disaster which offset legislation for improved factory safety standards in the U.S.
- Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)@
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