News:
- "Been Workin' on the Railroad," New York Times, Opinionator, February 10, 2012
- "Digging into Data in the Humanities, Day 1," Chronicle of Higher Education, Wired Campus, June 10, 2011
- Digging into Data Project Site Launched--The Aurora Engine, February 2011
- NEH Awards Digging into Data grant, December 3, 2009
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Research Publications:
- The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America, by William G. Thomas (Yale University Press, 2011)
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"The Railroads Must Have Ties: Edward R. Harriman and Forest Conservation, 1901-1908," by Sean M. Kammer forthcoming in Western Legal History, Vol. 23, No. 1 (winner of the 2010 Jerome I. Braun Prize in Western Legal History).
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"'Swerve Me?: The South, Railroads, and the Rush to Modernity" by William G. Thomas, in The Old South's Modern Worlds: Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of Progress ed. by Diane Barnes, Brian Schoen, and Frank Towers (Oxford University Press, April 2011).
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