Ninety years ago, a brutal 1936 deep freeze stopped trains, froze the Mississippi and reshaped life across the United States.

In the 1930s, the Great Plains in the American South faced a financial and environmental catastrophe spurred by years of drought and reckless farming practices. Already reeling from the Great ...

Many think that the dust bowl was only on the Great Plains. It was here. Vegetation withered on the fields and could not hold soil down. Long-time residents remember how it was in the 1930s when they ...