The Prairie Landscape

IHC Road Scholars Speakers Bureau


Simon Cordery

Simon Cordery
Monmouth College
History Department
700 E Broadway
Monmouth, IL 61462-1998

P: 309.734.7004

Simon Cordery

Simon Cordery holds a PhD in History from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently Assistant Professor of History at Monmouth College. He has received several awards and fellowships for his research projects, and has been the Historical Advisor to the National Railroad Hall of Fame Project in Galesburg, Illinois, since 2002.

American Railroad Leaders and the Progress of an Industry

This presentation provides an intriguing history of railroading in the United States viewed through the lens of biography. Drawing on inductees to the National Railroad Hall of Fame in Galesburg, Illinois, this illustrated lecture shows how and why the railroad network developed as it did, and how famous figures such as George Pullman, Abraham Lincoln, and J.P. Morgan reside alongside relative unknowns like Colonel John Stevens, Peter M. Arthur, Louis W. Menk, and Jervis Langdon Jr. in the pantheon of railroad greats.

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