transcontinental railroad

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• SOURCE: History.com
  9/4/19
  

  10 Ways the Transcontinental Railroad Changed America

  Includes comments by  James P. Ronda, Henry W. Brands, Beth Lew-Williams, and Richard White.

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• SOURCE: California Historical Society
  6/17/19
  

  The Transcontinental Railroad, African Americans and the California Dream

  by Alison Rose Jefferson

  Before, during and after the transcontinental line’s construction, in southern states, thousands of enslaved and then freedmen worked on the railroads grading lines, building bridges, and blasting tunnels.

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• SOURCE: Stanford News
  6-17-15
  

  Stanford scholars give voice to the Chinese workers who helped build Transcontinental Railroad

  by Cuauhtémoc García-García

  A century and a half after Chinese migrants toiled on the Transcontinental Railroad, an interdisciplinary team of Stanford professors is shedding light on a key chapter of the intertwined relationship between China and the United States.

• SOURCE: NYT
  8-14-13
  

  Richard White: Elon Musk's Hyperloop's $6 billion price tag "just pie in the sky"

  Elon Musk, a serial entrepreneur who was a co-founder of PayPal and the electric car company Tesla Motors, sent people in California into a tizzy on Monday when he released a white paper outlining a hypothetical high-speed transportation system called the Hyperloop.There were a number of curious questions about the Hyperloop, which Mr. Musk’s white paper claims will be able to travel at up to 800 miles an hour and transport people from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 30 minutes. While physicists agree that technically, on paper, this is possible, economists seem to agree that technically, on paper, the price tag of $6 billion is impossible.