Robber Barons Advance Railroad Policy
A passage from Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons outlines the often unsavory history of the railroad industry in America. As Josephson tells it, the history of the railroads traced a trajectory of corruption, scandal, popular outrage, largely [...]
Tags: railroads
Item Type: Book (excerpt)
A Chinese Immigrant Recalls the Dangers of Railroad Work
From the 1860s to the 1880s, thousands of Chinese immigrants found work in railroad construction in the West, notably on the Central Pacific line of the First Transcontinental Railroad, which was built primarily by Chinese. The extreme danger of [...]
Tags: Chinese Immigration, railroads
Item Type: Book (excerpt)