Graduation Year
Spring 2014
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Department
History
Reader 1
Julia E Liss
Reader 2
Rita Roberts
Rights Information
© 2014 Francesca O. Simmons
Abstract
This thesis explores how the campaign for the The Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways was a product of the 1950s military-industrial complex, which developed from a nationalist project seeking to confirm American exceptionalism during the early Cold War.
Recommended Citation
Simmons, Francesca O., "See the U.S.A. On Your New Highway: The Interstate Highway System as a Product of the Military Industrial Complex" (2014). Scripps Senior Theses. 372.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/372
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
