The world was put on notice: the transcontinental railroad was completed and America was moving to the forefront of the world's stage. The World Grew Smaller One day later, the first ...

Harper's Weekly reported on the progress of the transcontinental railroad ... When the Pacific Railroad is completed in 1870, all these gigantic tributaries will converge toward the main stem ...

The role that Chinese immigrants played in building the Transcontinental Railroad has long been buried. 150 years after the completion of the tracks, that’s finally changing. In the celebratory ...

They performed the most arduous and dangerous work despite racism, lower pay than white workers, curtailed food rations, and threats of violence from white railroad bosses. But in the famous 1869 ...

Chinese-American activist Corky Lee was a self-taught photojournalist who chose a camera as his tool for social change, ...

he used his political clout to secure land and funds for the railroad, and after his term ended he became its president. On May 10, 1869, Stanford personally completed the transcontinental railroad ...