The Dust Bowl of the 1930s brought more than hard times to America's Heartland and Southwest. Known as 'black blizzards,' dust storms moved across the United States with devastating force. Take a ...

"The Dust Bowl belongs on the list of the top three, four, or five environmental catastrophes in world history," according to historian Donald Worster of the University of Kansas.

Ken Burns' brilliant documentary, "The Dust Bowl," brings to life the terrifying tale of what life in the epic ecological disaster felt like for those who lived through it.

Watch Chapter 1 of Surviving the Dust Bowl. Trailer Surviving the Dust Bowl: Teaser. The remarkable story of the determined people who clung to their homes and way of life, enduring drought, dust ...

The Dust Bowl celebrates the resilience of the farmers — most of them first-time landowners just trying to build a better life for their families — as much as he criticizes their methods.

Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, “the Okie poet” with the down-home style whose writings reflected the lives of her brethren, Dust Bowl migrants who came to Central California during the Great ...