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Title:	All Aboard: The Railroad in American Art
Date:	11/3/2024 - 1/26/2025
Address:	Dixon Gallery & Gardens, 4339 Park Avenue, Memphis, TN 38117
Location:	Memphis, TN
Hours:	Tuesday - Saturday: 10am - 5pm, Sunday 1pm - 5pm, Third Thursdays: 10am - 8pm
Cost/Cover:	free
Web Page:	https://www.dixon.org/all-aboard-the-railroad-in-american-ar ...
Contact Info:	(901) 761-5250

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The railroad transformed modern existence in nineteenth-century America (and around the world). There was simply nothing like the power of railroads for transporting people and products between growing metropolitan centers in the eastern United States and ever westward across the continent. By the 1850s, American railways had effectively stitched together a still relatively new nation in a manner its citizens could scarcely have imagined just thirty years earlier. Just as the digital revolution has in the present day, the railroad largely reinvented the American experiment in the nineteenth century. The history of the railroads in the United States is also the history of many other things. The unfettered rise of this extraordinary technology ushered in a second Industrial Revolution, facilitated restless western expansionism, gave rise to the flawed ideology of Manifest Destiny, sparked the first spectacular wealth creation in America and the inequality that accompanied it, and contributed to the steady destruction of Indigenous ways of life.