Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Hilton Obenzinger discusses why certain immigrants did not want a job building the transcontinental railroad and then further discusses why the Union ...

The Chinese Joss House Museum -- rebuilt in 1990 after the original burned down in 1922 -- tells the story of a once-thriving Chinese community that helped shape the development in America's wild West ...

"A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now"-- ...