By Rhea Maze, Growing up in southeastern Colorado, near an area among the hardest hit by the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, James ...

Ten days driving down 'the Mother Road' revealed a country whose obsession with its own past is at odds with its precarious future.

An Aug. 10 article noted “the James River at Richmond is one foot below the zero mark, a record low reading for the ten years which measurements have been kept.” ...

Adapted from “Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sonora Babb” by Iris Jamal Dunkle (University of California Press, 2024). Used with permission. Sanora Babb, who grew up in a dugout farming ...

In its early years, it served as a thoroughfare for truckers, an escape route for Dust Bowl farmers, and a boon for local businesses. After it became the country’s first fully paved highway in ...

The Farm Bill, which was first started during the Dust Bowl to provide money for farmers and guidelines for soil conservation, is so crucial today — not just for our food security and economy ...

The Migrant Mother,” a photograph taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936, remains one of the most enduring images of the Great ...

This era came to be known as the Dust Bowl, and it coincided with Great Depression of the 1930s. This meant fleeing farmers fared hardly any better in the cities of California and other western states ...

This era came to be known as the Dust Bowl, and it coincided with Great Depression of the 1930s. This meant fleeing farmers fared hardly any better in the cities of California and other western ...

(Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images) The tree’s popularity spread rapidly across the Midwest, with farmers planting Osage ... project during the Dust Bowl era. One of the most persistent myths ...