With the completion of its great railroad, America gave birth to a transcontinental culture. And the route further engendered another profound change in the American mind. Here was manifest ...

Harper's Weekly reported on the progress of the transcontinental railroad throughout its construction ... as well as South American and the West Indies; but New York would become, to America ...

In the 1860s, it was the largest and longest-occupied camp for Chinese laborers who played an indispensable role in ...

Many thousands of Chinese, Japanese, African American and Irish workers ... new concept album exploring the building of the Transcontinental Railroad as an intersection of technological progress ...

Chinese railroad workers are like the railway ... and the U.S. and the 155th anniversary of the completion of the American Transcontinental Railroad, formerly known as the Pacific Railroad.

which explains how Chinese immigrants became a crucial workforce in the American West and why, despite their sacrifices and contributions creating the transcontinental railroad, the railroad's ...

Hart, who documented Central Pacific’s west-to-east progress of the Transcontinental Railroad. It’s among the most famous handshakes in American history. On May 10, 1869, Samuel S. Montague ...

The ambitious, multi-year "American Railroad" project tells the story of the transcontinental grid's construction through the lens of workers including African American, Chinese, Japanese ...

after his two-month journey retracing the path of Chinese railroad workers across China and the U.S. The year 2024 marks the 45th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and the U.S. and the ...