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The driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit, which marked the completion of the country's f…

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A fascinating journey through the history of railways, packed with first-hand accounts of innovation…

Twelve-year-old Ann Maria Weems works from sunup to sundown, wraps rags around her feet in the winte…

The Transcontinental Railroad, laid across the United States during the 1860s, remains the very epit…

Even before he was shot dead on the stairway of the tony Grand Central Hotel in 1872, financier Jame…

Around the time that the Civil War ended in 1865, the open ranges of south Texas were full of the ca…

A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bo…

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The Great Migration was one of the most significant demographic shifts in American history. Between …

The Legendary Casey Jones brings together many of Geoffrey Thomas’s short stories for the first time…

"I dare say, there are several questions you would like to ask at the very beginning of this history…

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This volume is a two-part history of the Civil War. Part I From 1861 to 1865 America was caugh…