Gallery: Graphics made throughout history for May Day, or the International Workers’ Day (aka Labour Day in many countries), which occurs on May 1st, and has often marked commemorations and demonstrations in support of worker rights and labor freedoms.

A brief history of San Francisco’s amusement parks. Watch the video by Joey Yee, a San Francisco native, DIY historian and multimedia documentarian who turns the camera on the City by the Bay to explore and tell the stories of local history and favourite spots. Featuring photos courtesy of Open SF History, an archive project of the Western Neighborhoods Project (WNP).

Explore and access a huge range of American folklife, art and culture via digitized web resources: museums, archives, libraries, oral histories, galleries and more.

By Carl Kurlander, Senior Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh. Republished with permission under Creative Commons license (CC BY-ND 4.0) via TheConversation.com

Selected multimedia collections of Irish history: websites, video archives, arts and culture collections, social media channels, and more.

Comprehensive media sources on issues of race in American history. By Adam Harris (2016), republished via ProPublica (Creative Commons / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 US)