Born in 1949 in Hanford Village, an African American neighborhood on the Near East Side, Shirley Mixon had a childhood right out of a book about 1950s suburbia. No one worried about leaving doors ...

In the years following World War II, with a growing economy and the vast expansion of automobile ownership, there was broad support for investment in highways that would knit the country together.

Highway 36 evolved from a 1930s “disjointed mess” into a critical regional “backbone,” shaped by reactive suburban growth, ...

A ring of 1960s-era highways encircles downtown Houston, dividing nearby neighborhoods along racial lines and separating them from the city’s urban core. Instead of pursuing ways to connect the city ...

On Sept. 12, 1964, hundreds crowded across freshly-painted highway stripes to watch the dedication of a new $12.5 million, 2.6-mile stretch of Interstate 70 designed to ease traffic congestion on what ...

The end of an era recently came for the area of Kingston Pike across from West Town Mall. The Tennessee Highway Patrol headquarters that has been located there since the mid-1960s — and even predated ...

Following World War II, population patterns in the United States shifted in two primary ways: a move away from older cities in the Midwest and toward newer urban centers in the South; and a mass ...