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Peter Blodgett is the H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American History at The Huntington.

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Sesquicentennial of a Railroad Across America
Posted on May. 8, 2019 by Peter Blodgett
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It has been 150 years since eastbound and westbound railroad tracks first met at Utah's Promontory Summit, the culmination of many years of planning ...
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Fighting a War with Books
May. 22, 2019 by Natalie Russell
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"Books are weapons in the war of ideas." This was the motto of the Council on Books in Wartime, a consortium of ...
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Cultural Exchange During the Peace of Amiens
May. 15, 2019 by Dena Goodman and Paris Amanda Spies-Gans and Cora Gilroy-Ware
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On March 27, 1802, Britain and France signed the Treaty of Amiens, ending a decade of warfare ...
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Sesquicentennial of a Railroad Across America
May. 8, 2019 by Peter Blodgett
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It has been 150 years since eastbound and westbound railroad tracks first met at Utah's Promontory Summit, the culmination of many years of planning ...
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