The Lincoln Highway was the idea of Carl G. Fisher, an Indianapolis automobile business owner who also designed the Indianapolis Speedway.

Seventy years ago, on June 29, 1956, President Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, aka the National ...

The Library of Congress marked the anniversary with a pop-up exhibit of rare historical documents relating to the Interstate ...

The US interstate system transformed travel and commerce but also left a complex legacy of divided communities.

The 50th anniversary of President Eisenhower’s signing of the Interstate Highway Act is a good time to dust off this review of the PBS documentary, “Taken for a Ride” that I wrote 10 years ago when ...

In 1991, the Federal Highway Administration revealed that the total cost of the Interstate Highway System was a whopping $128.9 billion, or about half a trillion dollars in 2016’s money. In 2019, ...

America's interstate highway system, launched more than 60 years ago, now carries far more vehicles than it was originally built for and is in dire need of repairs and improvements. The U.S. has ...

Sixty years ago today, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal Highway Act of 1956. It marked the birth of the interstate highway system, now a 47,000-mile network designed to ease crowded, ...

Driving from California to Vermont, as I did this summer, offers time to think and plenty to look at. The vast interstate highway system that I followed for much of my journey, championed by President ...

Happy birthday, America’s Interstate Highway System! We wish we could say you look good for 60 years old, but real talk: You do not. Sure, you’ve grown---when President Eisenhower authorized you in ...

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 ...