Railroads and the making of modern America

Description:: "[This site] explores the dynamic social change that came between 1850 and 1900 with the growth of railroads, telegraphs, steam ships and other technologies. It concentrates on the railroad network, and explores how the railroad's expansion and development brought profound economic, social, and political changes."

Title from home page (viewed June 3, 2009).

This collection includes shapefile data representing railroad networks in the United States from 1840 to 1870.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Resource Link:: https://purl.stanford.edu/tp955sp0123
Identifier:: https://purl.stanford.edu/tp955sp0123 and 375198327
Language:: eng
Creator:: Thomas, William G, 1964- and University of Nebraska--Lincoln, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
Publisher:: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Provider:: Stanford
Resource Class:: Other
Subject:: Railroads and History
Spatial Coverage:: United States
Rights:: This dataset is freely available for academic use and other non-commercial use. Redistribution, or commercial use is not allowed without prior permission. You are free to create maps and use the data in other ways for publication in academic journals, books, reports, etc.
Access Rights:: Public
Georeferenced:: false

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