Eisenhower signed a landmark piece ... Pershing in 1922, that laid the groundwork for a national highway system. The first official topographic map of the United States, it included 78,000 miles ...

On June 29, 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation funding the construction of the U.S. Interstate Highway System (IHS)--something Americans had dreamed of since Detroit starting ...

Since the Interstate ... system that defines it. If you know the system, you can always know (roughly) where you are and where you’re going. A new video from CGP Grey shows how Dwight Eisenhower ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Whenever there's a story involving a plane and a highway, inevitably posts like this one found in a Reuters.com article go around claiming: Fun Fact. The Eisenhower ...

Before the Interstate System, cross-country travel was slow and dangerous. But thanks to Eisenhower’s vision, America now enjoys one of the most advanced road networks in the world. Here’s the ...

The posts show a map of the United States with lines ... (I had no idea.) ‘The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are ...

Although its true genesis can be traced to a 1939 report to the US Congress, what we know of today as the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System began construction 60 years ago this week -- August ...

The June 6 post claims the interstate ... HIGHWAY SYSTEM MUST BE STRAIGHT.” The user who shared the June 6 post on Facebook declined comment. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal ...

compared with 120,000 trucks hauling half a billion tons when Eisenhower signed the bill. "Commerce is the biggest impact the interstate system had," McNichol said. "Mostly trucking, but also ...

The story of President Eisenhower’s decision in 1956 to create the interstate highway system, how it was funded and its effects on American commerce and culture holds lessons that the new ...

On June 29, 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation funding the construction of the U.S. Interstate Highway System (IHS)--something Americans had dreamed of since Detroit starting ...