Council Member Susan Zhuang on Tuesday introduced a City Council resolution that would, for the first time, recognize the history of Chinese-American railroad workers in New York City. Surrounded by ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — Railroads and infrastructure help shape a city and a country. Chinese immigrants had an important role in the creation of the first railroad across the United States. But some of ...

The site of the largest camp for Chinese railroad workers in California in the 19th century is one of the country’s newest National Historic Landmarks. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland ...

An engineering marvel made possible by the backbreaking and dangerous work performed by Chinese railroad workers has been designated a national historic civil engineering landmark. The Chinese ...

Yu Guoliang, an engineer in California who immigrated from Siyi, portrays a Chinese railroad laborer in The Silent Spikes, a ...

ALBANY — THE CHINESE IMMIGRANTS WHO HELPED BUILD the Transcontinental Railroad are being honored both at the NY municipal and state levels, thanks to a resolution that Assemblymember William Colton (D ...

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 ...

CARSON CITY, Nev. — A group has unveiled plans for a $50 million museum in Carson City that would honor 19th century Chinese railroad workers in the West. Co-directors Art Hannafin and Khan Tung said ...

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