Front Page Rural Liberation 21 Sep 202317 May 2024 Highway 50 transects regions of extreme rurality and metropolitan centers alike on its path across America. Perceptions of an urban-rural divide between the two dispersive regions has always been an…
Front Page The Ladies Resort to the Ocean 21 Sep 202317 May 2024 From a geographic perspective, Highway 50 either begins or ends in Ocean City, Maryland, converse with its west-coast counterpart, Sacramento, California. In both cases, the highway's termini have wandered over…
Front Page Opening Appalachia 21 Sep 202317 May 2024 Highway 50's route from the Potomac basin into Appalachia follows the course of one of America's oldest formal wilderness roads, the Northwest Turnpike. Following a rare east-west trace transecting the…
Front Page C.R. Patterson and Sons 21 Sep 202317 May 2024 Compared to earlier transportation models of rivers, canals, and railroads, the highway system democratized access to travel and migration. The highway experience for black Americans, however, was marked by challenges…
Front Page Outlaw Moonshiners vs. the Ku Klux Klan 21 Sep 20234 Nov 2023 Highway 50 leaves Cincinnati along the course of the Ohio and Mississippi Railway, the westernmost branch of the eastern railroad network at the time of its creation in 1857. This…
Front Page Interstated 21 Sep 202217 May 2024 The success of the U.S. Numbered Highway System seeded its own downfall; by mid-century, the highways simply became too popular for their own good. America's wholesale embrace of car culture…