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Rediscovering Roebling: A Public Dialogue on Underrepresented Labor Histories

Roebling Museum will launch an interactive Zoom series to bring hidden stories of labor, (im)migration, and life in a company town to light. Using the history of Roebling, NJ as a lens, the Roebling Museum will explore themes such as (im)migrant labor, industrialization, workers’ rights, and life in a company town. By combining historical scholarship with community voices, the Museum will encourage public dialogue about the past and its relevance to modern-day labor issues. 

"Tobacco Labor, Livelihoods, and Legacies"

A multimedia exhibition explores key intersections of US imperial, labor, and immigration history. The first and second World Wars threatened New England farmers’ reliance on Southern and Eastern European laborers, leading to the use with Black southern labor and transnational guest workers. Labor migration transformed cities like Hartford, Connecticut and Springfield, Massachusetts into African American and Caribbean spaces as Southern, West Indian, and Puerto Rican migrants settled in urban hubs closest to tobacco farms.

"Pullman Revisited: A New Look at Touring Pullman Guide"

During the 19th century, the town of Pullman, Illinois on the far southside of Chicago was one of the world's most famous industrial towns. The Pullman Revisited will update a pocket-sized walking tour book of the Pullman neighborhood, one of the most historically significant labor spaces in the United States, with increased emphasis on African American and gender history. The project will collaborate with local community stakeholder organizations to foreground their voices in developing this guide.

"Voices from the Factory Floor: ACME Steel and Living Deindustrial"

This oral history project focuses on the history of regional steel economy Acme Steel and the industrial, working-class heritage of the Calumet Region from the factory floor outwards. The endeavor will start an oral history project to complement the rich material collection and create a small pop-up exhibit to share initial findings. The primary goal will be to develop narrative threads that foster further work, research, and cataloging of deindustrialization in the Calumet Region.

"South Texas Rabble Rousers: A Primary Source History of Protest & Struggle"

This public history project provides curated online collections of primary source documents related to the activist history of South Texas, centered in Corpus Christi but spanning from the Coastal Bend to the Rio Grande Valley. Each entry walks readers through photographs, newspaper articles, maps, oral histories, and other sources, making it an easy-to-use tool in high school and college history courses in the region.

"Nuestra Historias: A Public History and Public Art Project"

This digital and public history initiative blends locally-based historical markers and historical murals with digital-storytelling through a web-based exhibit. Centering on Ybor City, the first sustained Latino community in Florida, the project highlights hot the community developed from collisions of international labor unionism, political activism, and anti-colonial organizing.