Guest: Gordon H. Chang is the Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities and Professor of History at Stanford University, where he also serves as Director of the Center for East Asian Studies and co ...

Late advices from Nicaragua and Costa Rica report that the Trans-Continental Railroad project was again attracting attention. A representative of the house of KEITH Co., View Full Article in ...

On May 10, 1869, a symbolic final golden spike was driven into a rail, linking the Central Pacific Railroad from the west and the Union Pacific Railroad from the east at Promontory Summit, Utah ...

The First Transcontinental Railroad Irish workers and labor is being honored on May 10, 2019, on the 150th anniversary of the “Golden Spike.” On May 10, 1869, the 1,776 mile First ...

Without the Transcontinental Railroad and Union Pacific, Omaha — and Council Bluffs — might be a shell of what they are today.

On May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory, Leland Stanford drove home a ceremonial gold spike to mark the meeting of the eastern and western lines of the Transcontinental Railroad ...