National System of Interstate and Defense Highways

The modern American interstate system, so crucial to the development of suburbs and the internal mobility of Americans, had its origins in defense. In 1919, Dwight Eisenhower, then a lieutenant colonel, participated in the Transcontinental Motor Convoy, designed to test how ...

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