With help from the public, a Stanford-led project will give a voice to the Chinese migrants whose labor on the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad helped shape the physical and social landscape of the American West. Read the full story in the Stanford Report.
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Bringing to Light the History of the Personal Lives of Chinese Railroad Workers
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