The centerpiece of his report was 15 maps showing the meandering Mississippi and its historical floodplains stretching from Missouri to southern Louisiana. A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk ...

Teddy Roosevelt proclaimed it "The Jewel of the Delta." Booker T. Washington praised it as a model of "thrift and self-government." Mound Bayou, in the Mississippi Delta: a town founded in 1887 by ...

The bulging Mississippi ... Mississippi Delta on Tuesday, threatening to wash away stately homes and shotgun shacks, and destroy fields of cotton, rice and corn in a flood of historic proportions.

Known for its Delta blues, rich literary tradition, and Southern hospitality, Mississippi offers visitors a unique mix of historical and cultural experiences. People travel here to walk through ...

Figure 1: Mississippi and Atchafalaya river plume patterns during the 2011 flood. Figure 3: SSC (mg l −1) and velocity (m s −1) profiles around the Mississippi River Birdsfoot Delta (1 ...

The city of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, is a historic all-Black town founded in ... By 1900, this small town in the central Mississippi Delta had developed from its modest beginnings, a “bustling ...

Severe storms rumbled across parts of the South on Sunday, two days after violent tornadoes smashed through the Mississippi Delta region ... less wiped off the map.” ...

The Mississippi ... of the Bird's Foot Delta could vanish without significant intervention. The LSU team aims to finalize its research in the coming years, providing a road map for saving the ...