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 ...

Shea Co. and Pacific Bridge Co. Principal organizer of Six ... word reached him that his company had won the contract to build Hoover Dam. His jolly blue eyes snapped with delight.

Saturday commemorates the 89th anniversary of the Hoover Dam's completed construction ... The 726-foot-high arch-gravity dam stretches 1,244 feet across the Black Canyon and was built over ...

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 ...