The railroad and the state: war, politics, and technology in nineteenth-century America

Internal improvements, the state, and the military in the early national period, 1800-1827

The U.S. Military Academy and engineering expertise, 1802-1832

Railroads and the rhetoric of national defense, 1827-1838

Surveying the railroads and the military approach to industrial development, 1827-1838

Railroads, resignations, and the rise of military professionalism, 1832-1848

A new phase in the relationship between the Army and the railroads, 1848-1861

The Civil War and the beginning of Army-railroad cooperation, 1861-1865

Civilization, concentration, and the construction of the transcontinental railroad, 1865-1870

The fruits of symbiotic exchange, 1870-1898.