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As Congress works to reauthorize a new Farm Bill, we must remember the lessons of the Dust Bowl and insist on robust funding ...
A great dust cloud passed through Oklahoma on this Sunday in 1935. Woody Guthrie said, "We thought it was our doom." ...
The Great Depression, spanning from 1929 to the late 1930s, was a time of unprecedented economic hardship that affected ...
Russell’s new novel, “The Antidote,” takes a similar approach, setting its remarkable story in a real time and place, in this ...
The novel tells the story of the Joad family during the Great Depression, as they struggle through poverty, the effects of the Dust Bowl, and vanishingly few work opportunities. It was famously ...
According to Kraft, boxes of its macaroni and cheese will last for roughly eight months in the pantry. However, the FDA notes ...
Historical fiction at its most powerful: 10 emotional novels that haunt, provoke, and shake our understanding of injustice, ...
During the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt created a tree army. Civilians planted trees, built dams, and transformed ...