The Samuel Gompers Papers collects, annotates, and makes available, primary sources of American labor history. Founded by Stuart Kaufman in 1974, the project has published two microfilm series of union records and nine volumes of Gompers' papers.

Peter Albert and Grace Palladino are the project directors.  A member of the project since 1974, Peter produced the microfilm collection, The American Federation of Labor Records:  The Samuel Gompers Era. He has also edited sixteen collections of essays, on the American Revolutionary Era and on Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement.

Grace joined the project in 1984. She is the author of Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, Dreams of Dignity, Workers of Vision: A History of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Teenagers: An American History, and Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits: A Century of Building Trades History.

Over the years, a creative group of historians has contributed to the project as editors, NHPRC fellows, or graduate assistants including Marla Hughes and Rebecca Lord, our current assistant editors, Joseph Bedford, Patricia Cooper, Janet Davidson, Ileen DeVault, Elizabeth Fones-Wolf,  Edwin Gabler, Michael Honey, Dolores Janiewski, Mary Jeske, Katherine Morin, and Dorothee Schneider.