EXPLORE Railroads and the Making of Modern America

Trace the growth of railroads, telegraphs, and steam ships from 1850 to 1900 and the dynamic social change they brought to America.

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Women in World History	Designing Tomorrow: America's World's Fairs of the 1930s	The Writing Code	The Modernist Journals Project
Encyclopedia of Appalachia	American Icons: Monticello	The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition	Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database