As America prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, we're taking a closer look at the Mississippi River’s lasting impact on ...
From 1811 to 1812, quakes in the central U.S. rang church bells in Boston and caused the Mississippi to flow backward.
"The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi" by Boyce Upholt, W.W. Norton, 352 pages When we look out at the Mississippi River, beyond the levee we usually see the always-swirling, ...
The catastrophe was the result of rampant fraud at the end of the Civil War.
The Mississippi River flows 2,350 miles, borders 10 states and drains an area stretching from New York to Wyoming ...
Rivers are often treated as fixed features of the landscape. They bend, flood, and shift over long stretches of time, but ...
MinnPost’s journalists are out in the community to report on the things that are happening in Minnesota. Your support right now will help fund their work AND keep our news paywall-free. From Other ...
In 1920, a local newspaper publisher turned politician donated his private library to the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, containing numerous historical works that detailed the development of the ...
Over the last few weeks, as a scorching summer gave way to a historic drought, I’ve watched many a Mid-Southerner explore our city’s bizarre, and hopefully temporary, new beaches. There’s been no ...
MARQUETTE, Iowa - It was just before sunset on the Mississippi River, the day's last bits of golden light dancing on the water, when four members of the band Big Blue Sky picked up their instruments ...
When we look out at the Mississippi River, beyond the levee we usually see the always-swirling, muddy water with busy freighters, tows and barges, tugboats and the like sailing the river or moored at ...
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