agricultural history

The American Dust Bowl of the 1930s stands as the nation’s most devastating environmental catastrophe, transforming over 100 million acres of fertile farmland into an uninhabitable wasteland. Through Timothy Egan’s National Book Award-winning work “The Worst Hard Time,” this comprehensive analysis explores how human actions and environmental ignorance combined to create an unprecedented disaster that would reshape both the American landscape and national policy. From the death of the Great Plains to Roosevelt’s revolutionary recovery programs, discover how this pivotal moment in environmental history continues to influence modern conservation efforts and climate change responses.