When President Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, he set in motion the largest public works project in American history. The interstate system now spans nearly 47,000 miles across ...

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Historian Tom Chaffin is the author, most recently, of Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah From the air, the 46,000 lunging, rolling, curving, tangled miles ...

President Obama has proposed allowing states to collect tolls on interstate highways as a way of raising funds to pay for reconstructing those roads. Most of the interstate system is toll free. Let's ...