In the early 20th century, farmers across the Great Plains harnessed new technology to cash in on a huge demand for wheat. But over-farming led to the removal of prairie grasses which had kept the ...

A dark cloud of dust rose high into the air, reaching as far as the eye could see. Many people living on the Southern Prairies thought the world was coming to an end. To many on that Black Sunday, ...

The 1930s Dust Bowl, fueled by overplowing across the Great Plains and associated with record heat and drought, appears to have affected heat extremes far beyond the United States. New research finds ...

Hugh Tranum was the guest speaker at the Valley Historical Society on the history of Sinclairville native Rexford Tugwell and the dust bowl of the 1930’s. SINCLAIRVILLE – Historian Hugh Tranum was the ...

Witness one of the strangest and most heartbreaking chapters of 1930s America. These colorized photos capture the surreal ...

HOLDREGE — People and places from the Great Depression-Dust Bowl years remain timeless in 80,000 black-and-white photographs taken by some of America’s best photographers of the 1930s. The federal ...

MOLINE, Ill. — The recent wave of heat across the United States has made plenty of headlines. Temperature records falling throughout the southwest, including the longevity of 100+ degree days! Many of ...

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The drought of the Dust Bowl era hurt many more farmers in the state than the current dry spell, according to a new report from South Dakota State University. In 1935, nine of ...