The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway
by Doug Most
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- Grade
- 9-12
- Genre
- Nonfiction
Year Published 2014
Word Count 127,648
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1280L
- ATOS Reading Level: 8.4
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 164493, 23 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- History
- Social Studies
- STEAM
- Subject Headings
- Whitney, Henry Melville
- Transportation | Public Transportation
- Boston (Mass.)--History--19th century
- Subways
- Whitney, Henry Melville, 1839-1923
- Subways--New York (State)--New York--History
- Massachusetts
- New York
- 19th century
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General
- New York (State)
- Subways--Massachusetts--Boston--History
- Competition
- New York (N.Y.)--History--19th century
- Boston
- Boston (Mass.)
- Subways--United States--Design and construction--Case studies
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Gen
- Whitney, William C. (William Collins), 1841-1904
- Design and construction
- TRANSPORTATION / Public Transportation
- Subways--United States--History
- History | United States | State & Local - Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
- Urban transportation
- History
- Urban transportation--United States--Case studies
- United States
- Competition--United States--Case studies
- New York (N.Y.)
- Whitney, William C
- History | United States | State & Local - New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
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