America's founders envisioned a federal government of limited and enumerated powers. What they could not envision, of course, was the vast and complex infrastru

America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line -- the first American railroad -- in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the

A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize "A powerful book, crowded with telling details and shrewd observations." —Michael Kazin, New York Times Book Review The tran

This book examines the complex and changing relationship between the U.S. Army and American railroads during the nineteenth century.