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 native Canadian's name became synonymous with railroad innovation and visionary business leadership in the last quarter of the 19th century. The transportation pioneer of the American ...

America’s economic growth in the nineteenth century coincided with explosive population expansion ... Perhaps most tellingly, productivity growth in sectors that were not trade-exposed, like ...