“The Transcontinental Railroad has been dubbed a feat of 19th century engineering and has been credited with opening California up to trade. Despite the importance of the project, little is known about the individual lives of the 12,000 Chinese immigrants who laid the track between Sacramento and the Sierra Nevada. »
Almost 250 attended “The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental” at Stanford University on June 6, 2015. The event, co-sponsored by the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University and the Chinese Historical Society of America (CHSA), commemorated the 150th anniversary of the employment of »
On behalf of Stanford University, it is a great pleasure to welcome all of you to this unprecedented event. The Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford was created in recognition of the crucial role that the Chinese who built the Central Pacific Railroad played in creating the »
Professor Richard Saller, Professor Gordon H. Chang, Professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Leaders of Chinese History Society of America, Dear friends, ladies and gentlemen, It is my great pleasure to be with you at prestigious Stanford University to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the introduction of large number of Chinese workers »
In commemoration of 150th anniversary of the introduction of Chinese workers to the first transcontinental railroad, the Society for Historical Archaeology has published a special thematic issue of its journal, Historical Archaeology. “The Archaeology of Chinese Railroad Workers in North America” features sixteen original articles, including never-before-published accounts of some »
On November 9th Gordon H. Chang gave a presentation on the Project at the Chicago Humanities Festival. The program was presented in partnership with the Stanford Humanities Center, the Stanford Arts Institute, the Newberry Library, and the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of »
On October 20th the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford, Stanford University Libraries, and Stanford’s Institute for Research in the Social Sciences sponsored a conference at Stanford on Geospatial Computational Social Science. In the video at this link, Hilton Obenzinger introduces goals for the digital project related »
The symposium, held on September 8-11, 2014, was jointly organized by the History Departments at Stanford University and Sun Yat-sen University with the goal of facilitating transnational cooperation in research on historic Chinese migration. The Guangdong Overseas Chinese History Compilation Committee and the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project »
Five Stanford undergraduates are working on the Chinese Railroad Workers Project this summer from late June through mid-August. In addition to implementing a new software platform and building our annotated bibliography, these students have been researching Southern Pacific Railroad records in Special Collections at Stanford, indexing our Oral Histories, and »
