Dust bowl

Striking images taken by photographer Dorothea Lange show families living in tents and shacks as they wait to be returned to Oklahoma after arid storms decimated their prairie homeland.

Explore 10 surprising facts about America's epic drought disaster—the Dust Bowl.

It was the biggest setback to the global economy since the dawn of the modern industrial age. But did the world’s reaction worsen the effects of the 1929 Crash? And have we learned from those mistakes?

Kansas in the 1930s was very eventful, but these stunning images from around the state show us what life was like back then.

Wright Morris, Faulkner Country, near Oxford, Mississippi, 1939

Sanora Babb wrote about a family devastated by the Dust Bowl, but she lost her shot at stardom when John Steinbeck beat her to the punch

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The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the ...

The Dust Bowl refers to the drought-stricken southern plains of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during the Great Depression of the 1930s.