Council Member Susan Zhuang on Tuesday introduced a City Council resolution that would, for the first time, recognize the history of Chinese-American railroad workers in New York City. Surrounded by ...

It was a seminal moment in American history: the inauguration of the first Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869, in Promontory, Utah. The day marked a profound transformation. A dangerous journey ...

The site of the largest camp for Chinese railroad workers in California in the 19th century is one of the country’s newest National Historic Landmarks. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — Railroads and infrastructure help shape a city and a country. Chinese immigrants had an important role in the creation of the first railroad across the United States. But some of ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive explain how 1,500 Chinese workers managed to build a railroad in just nine hours.

An engineering marvel made possible by the backbreaking and dangerous work performed by Chinese railroad workers has been designated a national historic civil engineering landmark. The Chinese ...

ALBANY — THE CHINESE IMMIGRANTS WHO HELPED BUILD the Transcontinental Railroad are being honored both at the NY municipal and state levels, thanks to a resolution that Assemblymember William Colton (D ...

CARSON CITY, Nev. — A group has unveiled plans for a $50 million museum in Carson City that would honor 19th century Chinese railroad workers in the West. Co-directors Art Hannafin and Khan Tung said ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Hilton Obenzinger discusses why certain immigrants did not want a job building the transcontinental railroad and then further discusses why the Union ...

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