Eisenhower's Interstates: The Modern-Day Roman Roads

Published: Sept. 10, 2019, 6:55 a.m.

Dwight Eisenhower inaugurated the US. Interstate System, which now boasts more than 50,000 miles of roads. The idea came to a young Eisenhower in 1919 when he spent 62 days with a military convoy snaking across America on its primitive road system....