Aurora Project Apps for Visualizing Railroad History (best viewed with Chrome):
News:
- "The Civil War's 'Brother Artists'," New York Times, Opinionator, November 17, 2012
- "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:
- "Railroads and Immigration in the Northeast United States 1850-1900" by Richard G. Healey in Geography Compass, 6 (8), 455-476.
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"The Railroads Must Have Ties: Edward R. Harriman and Forest Conservation, 1901-1908," by Sean M. Kammer in Western Legal History, Vol. 23, No. 1 (winner of the 2010 Jerome I. Braun Prize in Western Legal History).
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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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- "Civil War 'Brother Artists'," November 18, 2012.
- "Railroads and the Shaping of the Great Plains," May 3, 2011.
- "How Railraods Took Native American Lands in Kansas," December 11, 2010.
- "Railroads and Timber Grants: Edward Harriman, Conservation, and the 'Harriman System'," March 15, 2010.
- "Re-examining South Carolina's Secession--the story of the Blue Ridge Railroad," July 7, 2009.
- "Did U.S. Railroads Own Slaves--How Many?" July 2, 2008.
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