The "wanderer" was hardly a new arrival on the American scene; the itinerant drifter has been a recurring character throughout history. The railroads, however, presented the wanderer with the ...

Hill was "the last and greatest American railroad leader in the heroic era ... "We do not care enough for Rocky Mountain scenery," he said, "to spend a large sum of money developing it." ...

A scene inside the open house at Schuylkill Historical Model Railroad Club at Pottsville’s Masonic building on Saturday Dec. 14, 2024. (JOHNATHAN B. PAROBY/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER) Frank ...

Rhiannon Giddens is not afraid of big projects. American Railroad, the album, is part of a larger work, subtitled A Musical Journey of Reclamation, which Giddens initiated with the widely acclaimed ...

The ambitious, multi-year "American Railroad" project tells the story of the transcontinental grid's construction through the lens of workers including African American, Chinese, Japanese ...

“Railroads were part of the American consciousness at the time ... The ritual of miniature villages and nativity scenes beneath Christmas trees came to the U.S. with European immigrants ...