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 ...

Schuylkill County was a sea of water after being inundated by intense rainfall in the Great Flood of 1902. Starting on the morning of Feb. 28, it rained for nearly 24 hours, swelling waterways to ...

A first-of-its-kind project seeking to restore river ecosystems along 39 miles of the Lower Mississippi River has federal ...

The risk of Mississippi River flooding in the Quad-Cities this spring is below normal, according to an early forecast by the ...

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 ...

A potent storm that already plunged parts of California underwater has started to deal a serious blow to the eastern half of the US with flooding rain, severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, snow and ice ...

It’s an all time blues classic about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The duo recorded it in 1929, just two short years ...

A weather impact day is in effect for central Mississippi as waves of heavy rain and storms move across the state.

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 135, Great Inland Water-Way Projects in the United States (Jan., 1928), pp. 57-59 (3 pages) ...

The federal government and Corps began extensively fixing the river in place through a system of levees after the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 inundated 27,000 square miles. The levees ...