The 19th century saw the creation and expansion of railroads in the United States, which hauled freight and carried paying ...

Railroad work was one of the most dangerous jobs in the US. Even as workers were building the railroads in the second half of the 19th century, it was dangerous. "You had a clear segmentation of ...

For descendants of Chinese railroad workers, such as Kwan and Yee ... Chinese community in the western United States in the 19th century suffered destruction,” says Chang.

But where does the term “snake oil” come from? In the mid-19th century, railroad workers who had immigrated to the United States from China used the oil from Chinese water snakes to ease their ...

Union Pacific Railroad has notified employees in the East ... At the heart of the legal saga is an agreement that dates back over a century. In 1872, Palestine and Anderson County raised $150,000 ...

The site of the largest camp for Chinese railroad workers in California in the 19th century is one of the country’s newest National Historic Landmarks. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland ...