When officers from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) stopped an unkempt, dust-ridden man at the Arizona-California ...

FORT SMITH -- The Museum of History brought color to the Dust Bowl and Great Depression era through a presentation by historian Steve Kite telling the stories of how families survived the disasters.

During the Great Depression, the United States experienced years of massive dust storms that would become known as the Dust Bowl era. In the spring of 1934, the effects of a large dust storm were ...

Babb’s observations of rural poverty, particularly during the Depression and the Dust Bowl, would filter through the imaginations of millions of Americans in years to come—though indirectly ...

The result of numerous factors — including severe drought and failure to use farming methods to prevent wind erosion — the Dust Bowl decimated the Great Plains across three waves starting in ...