Labor History (Teaching with Historic Places)

Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) uses historic places in National Parks and in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. TwHP has created a variety of products and activities that help teachers bring historic places into the classroom.

Here you’ll find place-based educational resources relating to labor history. Discover more resources at the Teaching with Historic Places homepage.

Featured Lesson Plans

The Minidoka Dam and Powerplant

Discover the science and early history of hydroelectric power at the historic Minidoka Powerplant.

Hopewell Furnace

Explore how Hopewell functioned as a productive work unit and how work defined social relationships in this early National period community.

Building America's Industrial Revolution

Learn how technology applied to textile mills revolutionized industry, affecting mill architecture, city planning, and transportation.

More Education Resources

Curiosity Kit: Women Labor Activists

This kit focuses on the work of labor activists in Chicago and their efforts to organize and fight for better working conditions.

Curiosity Kit: Detroit's Labor History

This kit focuses on the history of labor in Detroit, which has been a central hub of industry for centuries.

Conversations about Legacies of Slavery

The lesson plans in this series guide students through conversations about the history and injustices of slavery in the U.S.

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