This is the grave of John Edgar Thomson. Born in 1808 in Springfield, Pennsylvania, J. Edgar Thomson grew up in an engineering family of the Transportation Revolution. His father was.
This is the grave of Thomas Alexander Scott. Born in 1823 in Peters Township, Pennsylvania, Scott would become one of the most vile men of the early Gilded Age. He.
This is the grave of Matthias Baldwin. Born in 1795 in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, Baldwin was wealthy as a small child. His father was a builder of fancy carriages for.
For the latest LGM podcast, I talked to Michael Hiltzik, the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the Los Angeles Times, about his latest book Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and.
Gizmodo has this series where they ask experts this or that. For this week's version, they asked a bunch of historians about which technology has led to the most accidental.
Today is the anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad's completion in Utah. I have written in the past about the horrific labor history behind this. I was happy to wake up.
This is the grave of Collis Huntington. One of the most corrupt capitalists of the Gilded Age, Collis Huntington was born in 1821 in Harwinton, Connecticut. He traveled around a.
On March 28, 1959, railroad worker union leaders in Mexico that threatened to shut down the nation were arrested. The government crack down, its firing thousands of workers and arrest.
