The first Transcontinental Railroad was finished officially in 1869, and it connected the western and eastern United States.

Transportation across North America with reached a new level in 1862.It was the year when President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Act into law.Tha ...

ALBANY — THE CHINESE IMMIGRANTS WHO HELPED BUILD the Transcontinental Railroad are being honored ... also honoring both the 19th century railway workers and many of their descendants — Asian ...

The remarkable success of the movie “Sinners” has sparked a renewed interest in how the two communities wrestled with life ...

We follow entrepreneurs like the “Chinese courtesan” Ah Toy, an immigrant to San Francisco ... Her ancestors include a railroad worker from the 1860s, a woman who was separated from her ...

In just the first two weeks, Philadelphia has held events around everything from the history of Black and Asian solidarity ...

In 2012, he created and co-directed the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America at Stanford ... including biographical records of Chinese immigrants from immigration services on Angel Island ...

Chinese immigrants, who built the Transcontinental Railroad, were depicted as caricatures ... Italian and Eastern European garment workers toiling in the Lower East Side sweatshops were called ...

Phoenix’s first Chinese immigrants, who’d come to the city as workers on the Southern Pacific Railroad, opened restaurants and laundries on First and Adams streets. In 1895, White businessmen ...

The majority of the workers who helped complete the railroad were Chinese immigrants. When was AAPI month passed in Congress? Just two years from Congressional resolution to formal recognition ...

Lee said many recent immigrants, particularly those from mainland China, are interested in learning more about the early histories of Chinese people who worked on the railroad and fought the ...