Overview :A life touched by tragedy and deprivation--childhood in her native Ireland ending with the potato famine, immigration to Canada and then to ... Read More
Overview :In 1836, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas agreed on one thing: Illinois needed railroads. Over the next fifty years, the state became the... Read More
Overview :Simon Cordery's Gilded Age Entrepreneur illuminates the fascinating and chaotic business world of Albert Pullman. The influential but little... Read More