Impeccable scholarship and lavish illustration mark this landmark study of American railroad folksong. Norm Cohen provides a sweeping discussion of the human as

For most of the 19th and much of the 20th centuries, railroads dominated American transportation. They transformed life and captured the imagination. Yet by 190

Presents an account of U.S. Minister to Mexico James Gadsden's negotiations that resulted in the purchase of land in order to construct a southern transcontinen