History of the Canal System of the State of New York, together with Brief Histories of the Canals of the United States and Canada. In two volumes. [Supplement to the Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor, 1905.]

1908 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 376
Author(s):  
Elbert Jay Benton ◽  
Noble E. Whitford
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Canal System ◽  
State Engineer ◽  
History Of

Financing a Second Era of Internal Improvements

2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 623-651
Author(s):  
R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Political History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Woman Suffrage ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Big Business ◽  
History Of

The year was 1915, and Edwin R. A. Seligman had a problem.He was not preoccupied with the battle for woman suffrage, which women would win in his state of New York just two years later. Nor was he immediately concerned with the war in Europe, which would soon involve the United States. Nor yet was he worried about hordes of immigrants, the labor question, or the regulation of big business. Those larger issues in the political history of the Progressive Era concerned him, but his immediate problem was both far more mundane and far more fundamental: How could the State of New York keep paying its bills?

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