American History
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Transcontinental Railroad: How Iron Rails United a Coast-to-Coast Nation
WASHINGTON, July 14 — The first transcontinental railroad in the United States was built between 1863 and 1869.…
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May 10, 1869: Golden Spike Unites Nation at Promontory Summit
PROMONTORY SUMMIT, Utah Territory, May 10 — The final spike was driven here today, completing the first transcontinental…
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Dodge’s Legacy: The Engineer Who Shaped the Transcontinental Railroad
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, July 14 — A century after his death, the work of Grenville M. Dodge still…
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The Pacific Railroad Acts: Lincoln’s Gamble That Bound a Continent in Iron
WASHINGTON, July 8 — Against this backdrop of a sprawling nation still scarred by civil war, the United…
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Founding contradictions and historical stakes of 1776 examined
LONDON, July 4 — Against this backdrop of America’s 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a webinar…
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Boston heard the Declaration of Independence two weeks after the signing
PHILADELPHIA, July 4 — The first Fourth of July was not a day of celebration at all. Nobody…
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FDR’s New Deal: Hoover Dam, TVA Transform America’s Rivers
WASHINGTON, July 8 — The strategic transformation of the American landscape during the Great Depression remains one of…
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Transcontinental Railroad Created National Market, Spurred Western Industry
WASHINGTON, July 10 — The transcontinental railroad, that great steel sinew binding the American continent, did not merely…
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