Yale students almost always access New York City via the Metro-North New Haven Line, a direct connection between the academic and urban campuses. But beyond […] ...
Seventeen people were killed and 159 others hurt when a full-speed train crashed into another nearly stopped on the tracks ...
The 19th-century industrialists were called ‘robber barons’ – but they did more to improve society than many of today’s super-rich.
For them, the Central, founded in 1853 as a consolidation of nine little railroads in the Mohawk River Valley, still carries the swashbuckling stamp of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt ...
Built in 1913, Grand Central is the dream of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Unlike once-glorious ... Made with stainless steel, this striking skyscraper gleams in the sunlight during the day and reflects ...
steel, oil, and financial empires — men such as J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Andrew Mellon. It was called the Gilded Age. They ushered the ...
The likes of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie ... He made a huge fortune on railroads and in steel. He rescued the U.S. Treasury in 1895 following the Panic of 1893 by selling a portion of his ...
PENDING: Access the advance paper when available. Speaker: Joni Hersch (Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Economics) Abstract: There is substantial evidence of discriminatory treatment of ...