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History Comics: The Transcontinental Railroad: Crossing the Divide


Series
History Comics

written and illustrated by
Andy Hirsch

Edition
Hardcover edition
Publisher
Macmillan
Imprint
First Second
ISBN
9781250794765
POTENTIALLY SENSITIVE AREAS
Discrimination: Racial Insensitivity/Racism , Discrimination: Xenophobia , Violence: Death , Violence: General
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Nonfiction Middle

Turn back the clock with History Comics! In this volume, experience the great railroad race. Who will build the longest track and connect the East to the West?

The year is 1863, and America is divided not just by the civil war but by months of travel over thousands of miles. Two railroad companies, one from the East and one from the West, are given the task of connecting the nation by rail. Building this railroad will be a monumental undertaking, difficult and dangerous. The work falls to immigrant laborers from the lowest social and economic classes. They accomplish astounding feats of engineering while waiting for an answer: Will those who connect the country be accepted into it?

Foreword. Afterword. Full-color digital illustrations.

POTENTIALLY SENSITIVE AREAS
Discrimination: Racial Insensitivity/Racism , Discrimination: Xenophobia , Violence: Death , Violence: General

Details

Format

Print

Page Count

128

Trim Size

8 1/2" x 6"

Dewey

385.0973

AR

0: points 0

Genre

Nonfic

Scholastic Reading Counts

0

JLG Release

Jan 2023

Book Genres

Narrative Nonfiction

Topics

Nineteenth-century US history. Central Pacific Railroad Company. Union Pacific Railroad. Economics. Labor. Chinese immigrants. Chinese Americans. European immigrants. Irish Americans. Black Americans. American West. Colonialism. Displacement of Indigenous peoples.

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