Chinese Railroad Workers and the Golden Spike
Chinese railroad workers were instrumental to creation of America’s first transcontinental railroad between 1863 and 1869.
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Chinese railroad workers were instrumental to creation of America’s first transcontinental railroad between 1863 and 1869.
What is the role of colorism in black female sexuality and the division of labor in slavery? Most slave narratives have a ‘moment of racial consciousness’ where the speaker first discovers they are enslaved. What was that moment of racial consciousness and enslavement for Linda/Harriet Jacobs? How does Jacobs argue slavery corrupts white Americans? How… MORE
“Greater Reconstruction” is one such articulation of a broader historical approach to the themes and big questions of the traditional Reconstruction era, allowing historians, and anyone interested, a chance to gain a truly national perspective of the tumultuous post-Civil War period.