On this day in history, July 7, 1930, construction of the Hoover Dam began. Over the course of the next five years, more than 21,000 men would work tirelessly to produce what would become the largest ...

Having grown up in Southern Nevada and spent a lot of time visiting, teaching and writing about Hoover Dam, I admire it and the people who built it. Megan McArdle (“Infrastructure blues,” Sunday ...

Happy birthday to the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge. It was 15 years ago this week that what’s officially known as the “Mike ...

A trail passes through tunnels of Lake Mead history and hints at the challenges of taming a once-wild Colorado River to harness its water and power. The mostly flat Historic Railroad Trail allows ...

According to the Bureau of Reclamation, there is a enough concrete in the Hoover Dam, at 4.5 million cubic yards, to build a two-lane road from Seattle to Miami. The Hoover Dam is closed due to the ...

Shows the building of Hoover Dam itself including how rock quarries concrete factories and even steel mills were built on location to supply the needs of the dam builders Against all odds In 1931 ...

Andrew J. Dunar teaches history at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is the co-author of Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression. He answers a few questions about major ...

PHOENIX – Lake Mead has declined to its lowest level since the reservoir was filled in the 1930s following the construction of Hoover Dam, marking a new milestone for the water-starved Colorado River ...

The Hoover Dam, the granddaddy of them all, provided jobs for only 5,200 people at its peak employment level. The Tennessee Valley Authority's signature Wheeler and Norris dams employed even fewer ...

Remains found by construction workers working on a highway project near the Hoover Dam in 2009 have been identified, Arizona deputies say. Using genetic genealogy, the remains were identified as a man ...