The filth of progress: immigrants, Americans, and the building of canals and railroads in the West

"Bind the Republic together": canals, railroads, and the paradox of American progress

"A wretched and miserable condition"; Irish ditchdiggers, the triumph of progress, and the contest of canal communities in the Hoosier State

"Abuse of the labour and lives of men" : Irish construction workers and the violence of progress on the Illinois transportation frontier

"Hell (and Heaven) on wheels": Mormons, immigrants, and the reconstruction of American progress and masculinity on the transcontinental railroad

"The greatest monument of human labor": Chinese immigrants, the landscape of progress, and the work of building and celebrating the transcontinental railroad

End-of-track: reflections on the history of immigrant labor and American progress.