Roadside Relics: Q&A with Ryann Ford

Was America’s Interstate System the greatest public works project in history? Eisenhower himself, who signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act into effect in 1956, saw it as one of his most important achievements. Many historians agree. As construction advanced in every part of the country, the car became part of the American way of life, an accessible and even glamorous means of transportation that penetrated the fabric of culture, from music to fashion to advertising to design.