The film prompts viewers to consider the ways highways have transformed American society and the challenges faced by highway builders, such as land consumption and environmental considerations in ...

Although they worked on the same highway, the units were kept strictly segregated. The African American engineers were often shortchanged in their allotment of equipment. In one case, the 95th ...

When the U.S. military decided to assign three African American engineering regiments to the Alaska Highway project, it departed from its usual segregationist policies. Since the Civil War ...