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Lawrence History Curriculum Unit Plans
- Lesson: Introduction to the History of Lawrence
- Unit Plan #1: The Immigrant City
- Unit Plan #2: Remembering the Pemberton Mill Tragedy
These plans are free and available for use at the link above.
The Great Strike Curriculum - Student and Teacher Materials
Small Planet Communications, Inc., in partnership with the Lawrence History Center, has developed a comprehensive curriculum for teachers and students on the historic textile strike that took place in Lawrence in 1912.
Maps of Lawrence Throughout the Years
This series of maps of Lawrence begins with the farmland of 1844 that was to become Lawrence, and proceeds through a 2008 Google satellite view.
Immigration
Alice Winifred O'Connor's Immigration Thesis (1914)
Alice Winifred O'Connor's Immigration Thesis (1914) and Diaries are available in Internet Archive. More about Alice O'Connor may be found here: HERE.
Pemberton Mill Collapse of 1860
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Interactive Tour: The Path | Fall of the Pemberton Mill, 1860
The Path is an award-winning interactive tour about Lawrence MA that uses sleek signs and online videos to tell the tale of two sisters who were caught in the largest industrial disaster in Massachusetts history.
- [White Fund Lecture, September 28, 2024] "No Avenging Gibbett": The 1860 Pemberton Mill Collapse, by Robert Forrant, History Department, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Labor, the Textile Industry, the Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912 (Bread and Roses), Strike of 1931
- ABC News: The Role of Lawrence, Massachusetts in the U.S. Minimum Wage
- The Strike at Lawrence, Massachusetts -- Hearings Before the Committee on Rules of the House of Representatives on House Resolutions 409 and 433, March 2-7, 1912
- PBS Video: The Italian Americans: Becoming Americans (1910-1930)
- DPLA Exhibition: Bread and Roses Strike of 1912: Two Months in Lawrence, Massachusetts, that Changed Labor History
- "Collective Voices" Bread and Roses Commemorative Video
- Video: "Bread & Roses Then & Now: Lawrence & the 1912 Strike," by Bernard Trubowitz (UMass Lowell student, 2011)
- James T. O’Reilly, O.S.A.: A Life for God and Country," by Teddie Gallagher. The Augustinian, Volume VIII, Issue II, Fall 2013, p. 4
- Report on strike of textile workers in Lawrence, Mass., in 1912. Prepared under the direction of Chas. P. Neill, Commissioner of Labor
- Film clip of the Lawrence mill workers, taken by a company owned by Thomas Edison, January 1912.
- Autobiography of Cornelius Ayer Wood (son of William M. Wood, President, American Woolen Company) 9 Oct 1893 - 13 May 1972 (aged 78), Burial: West Parish Garden Cemetery, Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
- "John Ramey: Killed in Lawrence Strike," by Jonas Stundza
- Lawrence Textile Strikes of 1931, by Zachary G. Najarian Najafi
Oral History Projects (see also Oral History Collection)
- Blog: "We, the People: Voices of the Immigrant City"
- Lawrence Partnership series of "Why Lawrence" videos
- Explorations in Oral History: Post Second World War Immigrant Voices Lawrence, Massachusetts, by Fabiane Kelley (UMass Lowell student, 2014)
Lawrence Riots in August, 1984
- Video: Lawrence Mass. 1984 Riots (The opinions expressed in the comments section do not reflect the Lawrence History Center's views)
- The 1984 riots : Lawrence, Massachusetts, by Joseph D. Duran Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
Economic Development
- City of Possibilities: Lawrence on the Merrimack, by Robert Forrant (MassBenchmarks 2013, Volume Fifteen, Issue One)
Housing Conditions and Public Health
Primary Source Sets
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills by exploring topics in history, literature, and culture through primary sources. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide.
Student Research & Projects
- Graduate Level
- Urban Redevelopment of Lawrence, MA: A Retrospective Case Study of the Plains Neighborhood, by Nicolas M. Pernice
- City and Island: Dominicans in Lawrence - Transnational Community Formation in a Globalizing World [Introduction] [Part One: The Places] [Part II: The People] [Part Three: Bridges Between]," thesis by Jessica Andors (Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 21, 1999)
- Latino Migration and the New Global Cities: Transnationalism, Race, and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000," a dissertation by Llana Barber (Boston College, The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of History, August, 2010)
- Undergraduate Level
- Documented During Their Detention: Initial Findings and Research Opportunities Using the Lawrence History Center’s Essex County Jail Records, by Bernard Trubowitz (UMass Lowell student, 2014)
- Explorations in Oral History: Post Second World War Immigrant Voices Lawrence, Massachusetts, by Fabiane Kelley (UMass Lowell student, 2014)
- K - 12 Level
- My City Is a Museum Invites You to Explore The Common, created by teacher Mary Guerrero and students at the Oliver Partnership School in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in partnership with the Lawrence History Center, the Lawrence Public Library, the Lawrence Public School, El Taller, and funded in part by the Merrimack Valley Sandbox Education Innovation Challenge.
Urban Redevelopment / Renewal
- "Urban Redevelopment in Lawrence: - Where? What is it? Who pays for it? How does it work? Who will it affect? How much will it cost? Read the answers to these and other questions" [From the Lawrence History Center Urban Renewal Collection:] A is pamphlet produced by the Lawrence Housing Authority Redevelopment Agency in the 1950s. It was handed out to residents and business owners at public meetings and answered questions related to the Common Valley Concord project -- the first Urban Renewal project in Lawrence.
Lawrence World War I Project, by Marc Laplante
Guide to the Essex Company Blacksmith Shop, c.1883 (PDF)
Lost Lawrence: Images of two lost structures due to demolition.