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In the latter part of the 1880s. And communities were being pressured to have better roads. Perhaps only going out into the suburbs. And we have places like cleveland and philadelphia that are installing brick roads. So there is a movement for a allweather road system, or at least in a limited sense, prior to the coming of the automobile, which really is about 1900, so 1905. Most american roads at the beginning of the 20th century, were mud holes during the wet season, and extremely dusty during the dry season. It was estimated that only about 5 of americas 2. 2 million miles of roads were act...

At 10 30 eastern of the development of the electric rail system of lecture and American History tv primetime on friday. This labor day weekend, American History tv on cspan 3 has three days of programming. Saturday night, officer Oliver Rosales sharing his history about the National Farm workers association. Chavez was blowing this up. The movement of workers and the people at the bottom of society were becoming engaged and fighting for their rights and working conditions but also mobilizing for politicians. Well talk to maybe a little bit about this later. I know some of you have mentioned th...

Open the seas back up for the british. In particular, whats going to be the most precious thing . Where does this war have to be decided ultimately. On the ground. So what do you need . People. Troops. Thats sort of a long way to getting back to saying about mobilization. Payton c. March, another unsung hero of world war i because march is the guy who is going to organize the draft. Youre talking about an army of i think the United States army at the beginning before world war begins is less than 2,000 people. By the time the armistice comes about, there are about two million soldiers in europ...

In fact, if the automobile had been invented perhaps 20, 25 years before, and if we had the triumph of the good roads movement about the same time, perhaps we would not have had the interurban era. Also, we can make a case too that the interurban is the transition between Steam Railroad less than car load freight and express and the coming of the motor truck. And in the near future, in fact, on thursday, i want to talk about trolley or interurban freight. To begin, lets keep in mind that the american inner city road system was awful. We did talk about that turnpike movement at the very end of ...

At 10 30 eastern of the development of the electric rail system of lecture and American History tv primetime on friday. This labor day weekend, American History tv on cspan 3 has three days of programming. Saturday night, officer Oliver Rosales sharing his history about the National Farm workers association. Chavez was blowing this up. The movement of workers and the people at the bottom of society were becoming engaged and fighting for their rights and working conditions but also mobilizing for politicians. Well talk to maybe a little bit about this later. I know some of you have mentioned th...