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Much of this site is and will be a "work in progress." Our intent is to develop materials that are useful for our research purposes and for teaching American history in both the U.S. survey course and other more specialized courses on the 19th century. We will be reindexing, proofing, correcting, and editing documents as we go, so we hope that our readers will bear with us as we add to and refine our work. The goal here is not to produce a documentary editing project but a research and teaching platform to test hypotheses and create visualizations of complex processes... This site explores the history of railroads, telegraphs, and technologies in the nineteenth century, especially the era of the Civil War. It focuses on key episodes in American history: slavery, territorial expansion, the Civil War, the transcontinental railroad, the Indian Wars, immigration, the great railway strike, the Pullman strike, William Jennings Bryan, and how Americans adapted to modern technologies.

Primary location: Lincoln United States