More than a mile long, the Grand Coulee Dam is the largest concrete structure in the U.S. In the fall of 2011, dam operators agreed to open the spillway just for American Experience. "It was very ...

“Grand Coulee is magnificent,” The Nation observed. “But don’t call it planning.” The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State as pictured in 1941, after completion (Wikimedia Commons ...

Of the many public works projects of the New Deal, Grand Coulee Dam loomed largest in America's imagination during the darkest days of the Depression. It promised to fulfill President Franklin ...