The seeds of America's most destructive flood were planted the previous summer, but it shifted into higher gear this week in ...

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That power would be unleashed during the great Mississippi River flood of 1927. Raised on his family's plantation in Natchez, Mississippi, Butler went to Tulane University and its law school ...

On New Year’s Day, the Mississippi itself went above flood stage at ... could not dictate to a great river; they could only accommodate its awesome power. Since 1927, the lower Mississippi ...

GREENVILLE-Today's flooding isn't nearly as bad as the 1927 flood, which caused major damage across the region.

which was blossoming in Mississippi at the time of the disaster. Blues artists from Bessie Smith to Barbecue Bob recorded over 30 songs related to the Great Flood of 1927. Though many blues ...

Barry is the author of The Great Influenza and Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, which received the 1998 Francis Parkman Prize for the best book of U.S ...