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American History Museum American History Museum
The tools, rules, and relationships of the workplace illustrate some of the enduring collaborations and conflicts in the everyday life of the nation
Explore the Agriculture Collections of the American History Museum
Explore the Industry and Manufacturing Collections of the American History Museum
Explore the Work Collections of the American History Museum
 
Agriculture
American Seed and Nursery Industry
Bibliography of the history of the American seed and nursery industry, their trade catalogs, and biographies
Caravan Kingdoms Caravan Kingdoms
Explores how ancient Yemen grew fabulously wealthy because of the caravan trade routes of frankincense and myrrh
Doubtless as Good: Thomas Jefferson’s Dream for American Wine Fulfilled
20th anniversary of the 1976 Paris wine tasting, where American wines first triumphed in an international competition
Seeds of Change Garden
The agricultural influence of Columbus' voyages
Shade Grown Coffee Shade Grown Coffee
Many resources—from technical research to sources of "Bird Friendly®" Coffee
Shade-grown Cacao
Research papers on the ecological and social sustainability of cacao farms
The Importance of Indigenous Knowledge
Cultural belief systems and sustainable development
Business
Computer History Interviews
Interviews with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Marc Andreesen, Ann Meyer, and others
Bill Gates: The Imaginable Future Bill Gates: The Imaginable Future
Bill Gates shares his vision of the computer revolution and how new technologies will affect our lives (60min audio)
Business Wings
The history of corporate aircraft
From Carbons to Computers: The Changing American Office
Explores a contemporary phenomenon that has strong ties to its past
Typewriters & Related Office Machines
Selected resources
Setting the Precedent: Four Women Who Excelled in Business
Labor
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820-Present
Places the current debate on sweatshops in the garment industry in a historical context

Frances Perkins: New Deal Stateswoman and Labor Reformer
Social Security Pioneer

Make the Dirt Fly
Online version of an exhibition on the history of the building of the Panama Canal
On Time On Time
The changing ways Americans have measured, used and thought about time during the past 300 years
Remembering Slavery
African Americans talk about their personal experiences of slavery and emancipation
The Disability Rights Movement
Commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Still Cookin' By the Fireside: African Americans in Food Service
African Americans in Food Service

Tool Chests: Symbol and Servant
A selection of tool chests tells us much about workers and workplaces

Mail Service
Binding the Nation
The early history of mail service from pre-Revolutionary America through the end of the 19th century
Customers & Communities
The evolution of mail delivery to vastly expanding urban and rural populations in the 20th century
Museums
American History Museum
History of science, technology, society and culture in America
Postal Museum
Interactive museum of postal history and philately
Research
American History Museum Archives Center
Collections of personal papers, business records and commercial ephemera, sheet music and historic multimedia
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