Dust bowl

Most experts consider the Dust Bowl of the 1930s to be the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.

Explore 10 surprising facts about America's epic drought disaster—the Dust Bowl.

These ten extreme weather events changed the course of US history. Learn how these events may have affected your ancestor’s lives.

I am a huge fan of everything Americana. I consider anything iconic that has to do specifically with our country's history to be Americana, including the Dust Bowl. I wanted to try to convey the terror and loneliness one must have felt during that time. There is a place in the Oklahoma panhandle called "No Man's Land" that was hit the hardest by the dust storms during the decade long beating. It was quite literally buried in dirt on a daily basis, especially in the summer of '35. Tumblr…

As the national conversation around climate change heats up, LIFE.com offers rare photos from Oklahoma at the tail-end of the Dust Bowl.

The project for the Historical Sew Fortnightly Challenge this time was “Peasants & Pioneers.” From the event page on Facebook: “As wonderful as making pretty, pretty princess …

Explore the artists and artworks of our time at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Imagine soil so dry that plants disappear and dirt blows past your door like sand. That’s what really happened during the Dust Bowl. Of all the droughts that have occurred in the United States, the drought events of the 1930s are widely considered to be the “drought of record” for the nation. Learn more about this period and its impacts.

Striking images taken by photographer Dorothea Lange show families living in tents and shacks as they wait to be returned to Oklahoma after arid storms decimated their prairie homeland.