which takes place during Black Sunday, one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, 90 years ago on April 14, 1935—and its startling parallels to our current climate catastrophes. I never intended ...

Karen Russell, bestselling author of “Swamplandia!” and other novels, will discuss her latest work, “The Antidote” in Houston with Inprint on April 14. On April 14, 1935 a massive dust ...

Karen Russell’s “The Antidote,” her first novel since Pulitzer Prize finalist “Swamplandia,” does not make it easy on reviewers. This is partly a factor of the Dust Bowl-era novel’s ...

The legendary life and career of newsman Ernie Pyle was celebrated Friday at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in ...

A lot has changed since "Black Sunday" and the Dust Bowl, including improvements to soil conservation techniques, and the creation of national grasslands, to prevent another Black Blizzard.

Dust storms are not new occurrences in Illinois. The Dust Bowl storms of the 1930s quickly come to mind, but dust storms also occurred in the 1960s and 1970s. The storms abated as reduced tillage ...

Grain elevators, for example, spurred by the expansion of the railroad network. According to the National Agricultural ...