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

The Interstate Highway System transformed American mobility and economic growth by establishing a national backbone for ...

For decades, the Interstate Highway System has been an essential link in connecting us to different communities and moving trillions of dollars of goods. In 2026, the highway system will turn 70 years ...

The Library of Congress marked the anniversary with a pop-up exhibit of rare historical documents relating to the Interstate ...

WASHINGTON – The future of the U.S. Interstate Highway System is threatened by a persistent and growing backlog of structural and operational deficiencies and by various looming challenges, such as ...

A myth regarding America’s highways has reemerged on social media. The Dwight D Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highway System – now known as the U.S. Interstate Highway System – ...

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 ...

A report by the national transportation research nonprofit TRIP concludes that the nation's 65-year-old Interstate Highway System is congested, carries significant levels of travel, particularly by ...

The collapse of an elevated section of Interstate 95 near Philadelphia, which came after a tanker truck caught fire beneath it on Sunday, has highlighted the critical role of the nation’s 66-year-old ...

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 ...

Bill Carey is the founder and executive director of Tennessee History for Kids. I suspect that most of us don’t think much about what life would have been like without the Interstate Highway System.