erie canal (n.y.)

Explores how the Erie Canal forever changed the course of American history, tracing the canal's history from its creation in the early 1800s to its role in American commerce today.

An illustrated, photographic history of the Erie Canal and New York's canal system.

Traces the development of America's early canals, particularly the Erie Canal, which enabled people to travel to places that rivers could not take them.

Always overshadowed by his competitive older brother, especially in their work as mule drivers on the Erie Canal, fourteen-year-old Howard finally finds the courage to pursue his dreams of becoming an educator after he learns about sign language and teaches it to his deaf friend in nineteenth-century New York State.

Chronicles the making of the Erie Canal from its conception in the early 1800s through its completion in 1825, focusing on the impact the canal's construction had on the social, political, and economic atmosphere of America.

Describes the building of the Erie Canal in the early 1800s, and discusses how the link between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes affected commerce and population growth in the new nation.

Presents an introduction to the Erie Canal, a man-made waterway in New York, discussing its design, construction, and use.

Chronicles the building, operation, businesses, people, and places of the Erie canal, through an illustrated history of the canal, which operated from 1825 until the 1920s.