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The Development of the West

In the summer of 1876, two dramatically different places captured the American nation’s attention. As the summer began, fairgoers in Philadelphia teemed into the Centennial Exhibition held to commemorate...

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Photography in Nineteenth-Century America

During the mid-nineteenth century, American...

Letterhead from Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, 1910, detail. (GLC)

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The Myth of the Frontier: Progress or Lost Freedom

For two...

Teddy Roosevelt in the Rough Riders, ca. 1898. (GLC07002.39)

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Theodore Roosevelt: The Making of a Progressive Reformer

Theodore Roosevelt’s interesting life often tempts biographers to write about him with the history left...

The Empire Builders, by Bernarda Bryson, the Resettlement Administration (LOC)

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Entrepreneurs and Bankers: The Evolution of Corporate Empires

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Cornelius Vanderbilt, ca. 1865. (GLC05151)

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Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?

On February 9, 1859, Henry J. Raymond, editor of the New York Times, said something strange about Cornelius Vanderbilt. Raymond...

Teenager operating machinery, 1913, by Lewis Hine. (LC-DIG-nclc-04898)

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History Times: The Industrial Revolution

A Changing Nation

The second half of the nineteenth century can be described as a time of...

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Born Modern: An Overview of the West

The present...

Joining of the rails, May 10, 1869, by Andrew Russell (GLC04481.04)

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Transcontinental Railroads: Compressing Time and Space

Many of our modern clichés about the impact of technology,...

Justice of the Plains: The Movement Westward, John S. Curry (LC-DIG-highsm-02850

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Women of the West

Women are like water to Western history. Both have...