A great dust cloud passed through Oklahoma on this Sunday in 1935. Woody Guthrie said, "We thought it was our doom." ...

The 1935 tragedy during a years-long drought compounded by a lack of soil conservation efforts "should be remembered as the ...

During the Great Depression, the United States experienced years of massive dust storms that would become known as the Dust Bowl era.

Alyssa Colman reflects on her research behind her forthcoming middle grade novel, 'Where Only Storms Grow'—which takes place ...

Her latest fiction novel, “The Antidote,” arises from the dust of the Great Depression and is set in ... wanted to share the story of the Dust Bowl, she also knew it needed to be narrowed ...

Russell’s new novel, “The Antidote,” takes a similar approach, setting its remarkable story in a real time and place, in this ...

Historical fiction at its most powerful: 10 emotional novels that haunt, provoke, and shake our understanding of injustice, ...

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 ...