The United States of America features the world's longest road network, with the country's complex interstate system being the backbone that stitches all of its regions together into one coherent grid ...

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 – ...

Amidst the Congressional battles over infrastructure funding legislation, the 48,000-mile Interstate Highway System (IHS) quietly reached a major milestone on June 29. On that date in 1956, President ...

The development of the interstate highway system in the mid-20th century revolutionized American travel, transforming not just how people moved from place to place, but also reshaping the nation’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In “Congress Debates Infrastructure but Ignores the Interstates” (op-ed, July 1), Robert Poole reminds us all of the vital importance of the Interstate Highway System for our economy and daily lives.

Since the Interstate highway system was created from whole cloth, rather than emerging through the years, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that there is a defined logic to the numbering system that ...

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.