Historic Documents of the Railroad Industry
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This volume explores the history of the railroad industry through key primary documents, from letters and speeches to government documents. Overview articles provide important context to the topic, while the curated selection of documents helps make the volume an important starting point for historical research.
This volume explores the history of the railroad industry through key primary documents, from letters and speeches to government documents. Overview articles provide important context to the topic, while the curated selection of documents helps make the volume an important starting point for historical research.
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Reader’s Guide
- The U.S. Railroad Industry: Historical Overview
- Moses Holbrook: Letter to John James Gourgas about “Charleston’s Best Friend”
- Report of the Directors of the New York and Eire Railroad Company
- Charles Dickens: “An American Railroad,” from American Notes
- Henry David Thoreau Questions the Need for the Railroad
- Joseph C.G. Kennedy: “Progress of Railroads in the United States for the Decade 1850-1860”
- Pacific Railroad Act
- John P. Cone: “The Pacific Railroad”
- Rev. Dr. Vinton: “East and West Completion of the Great Line Spanning the Continent”
- “The Railroad Vote in Northampton”
- Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins: Petition to Congress
- New York Times Editorial Board: “The Great Railroad Strike of 1877”
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Grover Cleveland: Proclamation on the Pullman Strike
- Eugene V. Debs: “The Federal Government and the Chicago Strike”
- Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: “The Pullman Porter”
- “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”
- Wallace Saunders, Eddie Newton, and T. Lawrence Siebert: “Casey Jones”
- Francis Bret Harte: “What the Engines Said”
- William T. Sherman: Letter to David Douty Colton on the Military Importance of the Transcontinental Railroad
- Woodrow Wilson: Government Assumption of Control of Transportation Systems
- U.S. War Department: Military Railroads and the Military Railway Service in World War II
- Thor Hultgren: Railway Traffic Expansion and Use of Resources in World War II
- Harry S. Truman: Radio Address to the American People on the Railroad Strike Emergency
- Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970
- Richard M. Nixon: Statement on Signing the Amtrak Improvement Act of 1973
- Jimmy Carter: Statement on Signing the Staggers Rail Act of 1980
- Randy Mallory: Press Release about the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad
- Joe Biden and Barack Obama: “The Future of High-Speed Rail”
- Daniel Webster: Congressional Hearing on America’s Freight and Passenger Rail Network
Tom Lansford is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Coast. His research interests include foreign and security policy, and the U.S. presidency. Dr. Lansford is the author, coauthor, editor or coeditor of more than 60 books, and the author of more than one hundred essays, book chapters, encyclopedic entries, and reviews. His sole-authored books include: A Bitter Harvest: U.S. Foreign Policy and Afghanistan (2003), the Historical Dictionary of U.S. Diplomacy Since the Cold War (2007) and 9/11 and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Chronology and Reference Guide (2011). His edited collections include: America’s War on Terror (2003; second edition 2009), Judging Bush (2009), The Obama Presidency: A Preliminary Assessment (2012) and A Transformation in American National Politics: The 2012 Presidential Election (2016). Dr. Lansford served as the editor of the Political Handbook of the World since 2012.
