HAMBURG, Pa. - An exhibit at the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum in Hamburg transports guests back to the Civil War era, taking a look at the role of the region's railroads during and after the ...

Historian and author Robert M. “Bert” Dunkerly of Richmond, Va., will present an online program on “Civil War Railroads” 6:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 19, for the Inland Empire Civil War Round Table. The ...

Map list -- Introduction -- Opening the trade routes -- First railroads, 1700-1830 -- Origins of the streetcar -- Rail track developments -- Harnessing the power of steam, 1800-34 -- Coming of the ...

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Washingtonians in 1860 could take trains directly to Baltimore and from there to Philadelphia, Harrisburg, or the trans-Appalachian West. A journey from Alexandria to Richmond, however, required a ...

Eric Arnesen is emerging as one of the most original and independent-minded historians of American labor. The author of a fine book on dockworkers in New Orleans and a famous article discrediting the ...