In August 2024, the American Social History Project launched a new digital, expanded, and updated edition of Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s History (WBA?), a history textbook with a focus on social and labor history. Available as an Open Educational Resource and intended for classroom use and general audiences, the new WBA? is supplemented by thousands of primary sources and new teaching resources.

Join in person at the Graduate Center (June 3rd, 2:30–4:00 pm) or online (June 5th, 11 am–12:30 pm) for a 90-minute workshop introducing the WBA? OER. Each session will explore the textbook’s unique features, including its extensive repository of primary sources and media-rich supplemental essays. This workshop will demonstrate how WBA? can be effectively adopted across a range of courses—from composition classes and history surveys to electives that rely on historical inquiry or primary-source analysis. Participants will have dedicated time to identify materials that align with their syllabi, create engaging discussion prompts, or outline micro-assignments, and then share and discuss these ideas collectively. Click here to register.

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