"Sky, water, wave-lashed rock, that lovely shore ... for a time they are all yours, and they set you free," writes Allan C. Fisher, Jr., in praise of boating, at the start of his voyage down the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.

Expelling the Poor argues that immigration policies in nineteenth-century New York and Massachusetts, driven by cultural prejudice against the Irish and more fundamentally by economic concerns about their poverty, laid the foundations for American immigration control.

The steam and diesel operations of the line that was famous for New York-Miami passenger service and freight haulers. Trains, depots and memorabilia.

The story of the Atlantic Coast Line's wonderful postwar passenger trains is told in a readable narrative supported by scores of company publicity photos that depict the trains inside and out. This book not only covers the great New York-to-Florida streamliners, but also the locals and workaday passenger trains that crisscrossed the ACL system. Also featured are car and locomotive rosters, diagrams and drawings, and other material useful to modelers in constructing and painting ACL passenger cars.

A pioneering work in Atlantic studies that emphasizes a transnational approach to the past.