Stretching over 46,876 miles, the United States Interstate Highway System connects nearly every corner of the nation, but behind the asphalt and interchanges lies a web of ambitions, controversies, ...

Praised as the biggest public works project in American history, the Interstate Highway System has been an essential link in connecting us to different communities and moving trillions of dollars ...

America’s interstate system was born out of dreams of connection, and—for a brief moment—the belief that nuclear bombs might literally blast the nation’s highways into existence. Long before today’s ...

The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on June 29 of that year, funded the Interstate Highway System. Joining this transcontinental system, the Interregional ...