Most of the early workers were Irish immigrants. Railroad work was hard, and management was chaotic, leading to a high attrition rate. The Central Pacific management puzzled over how it could ...

In the 1840s, Irish peasants came to Canada in vast numbers to escape a famine that swept Ireland. Robert Whyte kept a record ...

Many railroad workers and their families lived ... times — theirs is a tale that demands empathy.” Because of the Irish immigrants’ work, the Horseshoe Curve became a reality, Mark Frederick ...

So Irish immigrants are much more likely to start ... He worked for the New York Central Railroad for 50 years, until he’s 80 years old. That was very typical of the famine immigrants.

Railroads, canals, meatpacking plants ... It was the first such organization founded in Chicago. Irish immigrants worked on the construction of the canal connecting Chicago with the Illinois ...

In the mid-1850s, the Whig party, the prime opposition to the Democrats, was breaking up. Eventually they would be replaced by the Republican Party. During this time, another party that reached ...

The United States, probably more than any other nation, is the result of immigration. Think about it, except for those with ...