My 1950 trip from New York to Yuma wasn’t my first long-distance hitchhiking experience, but it was just about my last. Hitching was a common way to travel without money, and in spite of warnings about the hazards of that kind of travel ...

When the America on the Move team began exploring the universe of stories that could be told in the exhibition, one that kept surfacing was containerization. Here is a behind-the-scenes look at how the container in the exhibition came to be.