In 1929, Amelia Perry was born in Haskell County; just one year later, the nation would be hit with an agricultural and ...

Karen Russell’s “The Antidote,” her first novel since Pulitzer Prize finalist “Swamplandia,” does not make it easy on ...

I was born in what’s now the center — what was considered the center of the Panhandle, the Dust Bowl. I feel like that ... we didn’t know but what our house would blow away.

The Dust Bowl, a two-part, four-hour documentary series by Ken Burns, aired November 18 and 19, 2012 on PBS. The film chronicles the environmental catastrophe that, throughout the 1930s ...

The house was sure to be blown away and our nearest ... Maritimers sent salt cod and Torontonians sent money. But as the Dust Bowl continued for most of the decade and wheat prices plunged to ...