This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel continues to connect readers with over 15 million copies sold.

Route 66 is not the oldest, longest or most well-travelled long-distance highway in the U.S. So why is it the most famous?

In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck awakened the American conscience to the hapless life of the migrant farm worker. That was exactly 30 years ago. The stoop laborer in the fields today is still a ...

On its centennial anniversary, Route 66 gets a glow-up with boutique hotels and pavement that sings (for real).

There’s not much left of the microscopic farm town of Weedpatch. Not much left except places like Collins Auction, where ...

Oklahoma, staying alive after a first-game loss with a 7-1 reprieve Saturday, the Sooners seeded third nationally in the ...

Before cars could drive themselves, the Mother Road beckoned Americans westward. We drove a long stretch of it to assess the ...

There are faster ways to get from Chicago to Los Angeles, but none have the allure or cultural cachet of Route 66.

In an extraordinary episode in U.S. migration history, Los Angeles police stopped fellow Americans from crossing state lines into California.

John Steinbeck’s classic 1939 novel of Depression-era migrant workers fleeing the Dust Bowl retains much of its power thanks to a continued relevance, which Shillinglaw eloquently details. Published ...

If you haven't gotten your kicks on Route 66 yet, this is a great summer to do just that ...