The Transcontinental Railroad was one of the most ambitious projects in US history - but it came at a deadly cost. Built ...

Peru, Brazil and China are moving forward on a transcontinental railway that ... during a four-country Latin American tour by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. The railway is expected to slash the ...

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 director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in ...

The role that Chinese immigrants played in building the Transcontinental Railroad has long been buried. 150 years after the completion of the tracks, that’s finally changing. In the celebratory ...

Chinese immigrants flocked to the American West in the 1800s to help build railroads and amid a mining boom. Many of their ...

Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad: Chinese peasants from the Canton Province began arriving on California's shores in 1850, pushed by poverty and overpopulation from their homeland — and ...

The transcontinental railroad's construction touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Some desired it, some built it, and some did everything in their power to stop it. Browse a photo ...

Monica Yeung Arima stands in front of the “Chinese and the Iron Road — Building the Transcontinental Railroad” exhibit on her front porch in Palo Alto on May 16, 2023. Photo by Sue Dremann.