Ninety years ago this month, in the depths of the Great Depression, Congress created a new agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture to safeguard rural prosperity for future generations: The ...

In their powerful new documentary The Dust Bowl, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan call the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s “the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history.” The great billowing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TAYLOR COUNTY, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – In 1929, Amelia Perry was born in Haskell County; just one year later, the nation would be hit ...

Imagine your novel about farmers fleeing the high plains during the Dust Bowl is about to be published. But another book — one partially based on your notes — comes out first. It’s John Steinbeck's ...

Witness one of the strangest and most heartbreaking chapters of 1930s America. These colorized photos capture the surreal world of the Dust Bowl migration — endless dust storms, abandoned farms, ...