Mexican Railroad Labor In 1900, El Paso became the scene of intense recruitment efforts of Mexican workers as American railway companies struggled to fill their labor needs. Asian immigrants had ...

This volume of Freedom presents a documentary history of the emergence of free-labor ... the series to its halfway point and makes another contribution to the study of American labor and social ...

In the summer of 1900, much of America was on the move. Advances in technology and a rise in the standard of living had introduced a concept that was previously foreign to the American middle ...

The American Civil War destroyed slavery in the South ... This volume of Freedom presents a documentary record of the transformation of the Civil War into a war against slavery, and the slaves' role ...