Research Publications

The following essays, articles, reports, and white papers have been published with research data or support from this digital project:

"Places of Exchange: An Analysis of Human and Materiél Flows in Civil War Alexandria, Virginia" by William G. Thomas III, Kaci Nash, and Robert Shepard, in Civil War History 62, no. 4 (2016): 359-398
"Land and Law in the Age of Enterprise: A Legal History of Railroad Land Grants in the Pacific Northwest, 1864-1916" by Sean M. Krammer (PhD diss., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2015)
"Railroads and Regional Labor Markets in the Mid-Nineteenth Century United States: A Case Study of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad" by Richard G. Healey, William G. Thomas, and Katie Lahman, in Journal of Historical Geography 41 (July 2013): 13-32
"The Civil War's 'Brother Artists'" by William G. Thomas and Leslie Working in New York Times, November 17, 2012
"Been Workin' on the Railroad" by William G. Thomas in New York Times, February 10, 2012
"Railroads and Immigration in the Northeast United States 1850-1900" by Richard G. Healey in Geography Compass 6, no. 8 (2012): 455-476
"The Railroads Must Have Ties: Edward R. Harriman and Forest Conservation, 1901-1908," by Sean M. Kammer in Western Legal History 23, No. 1 (winner of the 2010 Jerome I. Braun Prize in Western Legal History)
William G. Thomas, The Iron Way: Railroads, The Civil War, and the Making of Modern America (Yale University Press, 2011)
"'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: Oxford University Press, April 2011)
"Shaping Nebraska: An Analysis of Railroad Land Sales, 1870-1880" by Kurt Kinbacher and William G. Thomas, in Great Plains Quarterly 28 (2008)
"William Jennings Bryan, The Railroads, and the Politics of 'Workingmen,'" by William G. Thomas, in Nebraska Law Review 86 (2007)
"The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroads, the Creation of a Modern Landscape," by William G. Thomas, Brooks M. Barnes, and Tom Szuba, in Southern Spaces, 2007

The following conference papers and presentations have been presented with research data or support from this digital project:

Thomas, William G. and Leslie Working (2012) "African American Mobility After Emancipation, 1865-1867," (paper given at the Society of Civil War Historians, Lexington, June 2012)
Thomas, William G. (2012) "Digital History: The State of the Field." Chair, American Historical Association, Chicago, January 2012
Thomas, William G. and Leslie Working (2012) "Railroads and the Making of Modern America: Tools for Spatio-Temporal Visualization" American Historical Association Conference, January 2012
Thomas, William G. (2011) "Digital Analysis of Texts: The Mobility of African Americans After Emancipation," Organization of American Historians, Houston, March 2011
Healey, Richard G., M. Johns, M. Schaefer, W. G. Thomas, I. Cottingham and L. Working (2011) "Railroads, Visualization and the Web: A Progress Report on the Digging into Data Challenge Project" (Paper given at the GISRUK Annual Conference, Portsmouth, UK, April 2011)
Thomas, William G., R. G. Healey I. Cottingham, M. Johns, L. Working and M. Schaefer (2011) "Railroads and the Making of Modern America: Tools for Spatio-Temporal Analysis and Visualization" (Paper given at the JISC/NEH Digging into Data Challenge Conference, Washington D.C. June 2011)
Healey, Richard G., and M. Johns (2011) "Development of an Historical GIS of Railroads in the North-East USA 1826-1900. Phase II" (Paper given at the Workshop on Railroads in Historical Context: Construction, Costs and Consequences Foz Tua, Alto Douro, Portugal, October 2011 - now published in conference proceedings)
Healey, Richard G., W. G. Thomas, M. Johns, I. Cottingham, E. White and L. Working (2010) "Digging into Railroad Data : a GIS and Visualisation-Based Approach" (Paper given at the SSHA Annual Conference, Chicago, November 2010)
Healey, Richard G. (2010) "Space: the Final Railroad Frontier?" Commentator. Panel on Richard White’s “Constructing Railroad Space.” SSHA Annual Conference, Chicago, November 2010
Thomas, William G and R. G. Healey (2010) "Railroad Workers and Worker Mobility in the Great Plains" (Paper given at the Western History Association Conference, Lake Tahoe, October 2010)
Thomas, William G. and Doug Downey, (2010) "Digging into Railroads," (paper given at Chicago Colloquium in Digital Humanities, Northwestern University, November 2010)

Railroads and the Making of Modern America

Research Publications