October 2013: Project Hosts Archaeology Workshop at Stanford

Organized by Stanford Professor Barbara Voss, archeologists who have studied Chinese sites along the Central Pacific Railroad’s construction gathered at Stanford University, CA to discuss their research.   The program for the Archeology Workshop is available here:   Abstracts of the papers given at the Archeology Workshop are also available »

September 2013: Academia Sinica Hosts Workshop in Taipei

Organized by Professor Pin-chia Feng (National Chiao Tung University and Academia Sinica), scholars working on the Project in the United States and Asia gathered to share their research at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, in Taipei, Taiwan. The Taipei Workshop program is available here: »

Summer 2013: Research Team Visits California State Railroad Museum

In Summer 2013, the CRRW research team went to the California State Railroad Museum to meet with archivists and librarians. Over two hundred payroll records from the Central Pacific Railroad company have been located and will become a part of the Digital Archive. They toured the historical downtown Sacramento and »