During the 1919 transcontinental convoy, soldiers use a winch to pull a truck out of a ditch. When the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock, they didn't just drop anchor, row ashore and hop onto ...

Stretching over 46,876 miles, the United States Interstate Highway System connects nearly every corner of the nation, but behind the asphalt and interchanges lies a web of ambitions, controversies, ...

The story of America’s interstates is usually told as a straightforward tale of postwar progress, but the real origins are stranger and more contested than the green signs suggest. The Dwight D.

Two cheers for the Interstate Highway System on its 50th birthday. It is one of the greatest public works projects in history and is indisputably key to U.S. economic prosperity. But hold the third ...

A man-made wonder, a connective network, an economic force, a bringer of blight and sprawl and the possibility of escape--the U.S. interstate system transformed America. The Big Roads presents the ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - August 2, 1956. What we now know as Interstate 44 and Interstate 70 were actually historic milestones for both Missouri and the greater United States.

Praised as the biggest public works project in American history, the Interstate Highway System has been an essential link in connecting us to different communities and moving trillions of dollars ...