Friday, January 9, 2004
2:30–4:30 p.m.
52. North America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: From Atlantic to Continental Economy
Omni Shoreham, Congressional BJoint session with the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
| Chair: | Stephen J. Randall, University of Calgary |
| Papers: | Constructing
North America: Transnational
Railroads and the Atlantic Economy After
the Underground Railroad: Race,
Poverty, and Migration in
the Great Lakes Borderland Empires
of “The Jungle”:
Mexico and the U.S. Meatpacking
Industry, 1880–1920 |
| Comment: | John M. Hart, University of Houston |
