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Book Talk at the Library of Virginia: Professor William G. Thomas. "The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War and the Making of Modern America"
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Fri, 11 May 2012 11:30:43 -0400
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Library of Virginia
Friday, May 18, 2012. Noon to 1 PM
Conference Rooms, FREE

Professor William G. Thomas, professor of history and the John and Catherine Angle Chair in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will discuss his new book The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War and the Making of Modern America. Beginning with Frederick Douglass's escape from slavery in 1838 on the railroad, and ending with the driving of the golden spike to link the transcontinental railroad in 1869, his book charts a critical period of American expansion and national formation, one largely dominated by the dynamic growth of railroads and telegraphs. William G. Thomas brings new evidence to bear on railroads, the Confederate South, slavery, and the Civil War era, based on groundbreaking research in digitized sources never available before. The Iron Way revises our ideas about the emergence of modern America and the role of the railroads in shaping the sectional conflict. 

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