Private Collection / Smithsonian American Art Museum At the start of the 19th century, the United States ... which these innovations in transportation and communications helped facilitate.

The narrative illustrates the evolution of travel in America during the 1840s. Keywords travel, 1840s, blacksmith apprentice, stagecoach, Erie Canal, barge, steamship, Illinois, transportation ...

The Trump administration’s current use of 19th-century tools to solve 20th-century problems threatens to take America back to ...