But the headline act was not the ship, it was the Mississippi itself. Dubbed “the great artery of America” by Civil War ...

near where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico. Men with circular scrubbers and power washers followed, sudsing the sidewalks of Bourbon Street, which runs for twelve blocks ...

As the resulting map makes clear ... When the USS Cincinnati stopped at a plantation on the Mississippi River in March 1863, sailors went ashore and, after chasing away the owner, took 150 ...

Shreveport is older than Caddo Parish, which was created on January 18, 1838. The very first sheriff of Caddo Parish was Alexander Boyd Sterrett, the husband of Martha Bowie Sterrett.

To escape his fate, he flees the village to a nearby island on the Mississippi River, where he runs into ... s abduction in the 1770s to the Hope Plantation in Jamaica. Affecting and devastating ...

A glance at the map ... Mississippi. … Do you suppose the people of the Northern and Atlantic States will, or ought to, look on with patience and see Representatives and Senators from the Red ...

Flood control along the Mississippi River is a central piece of a newly passed federal law — work that advocates believe is ...

Considered an American heritage landmark, the stunning antebellum mansion sits about 200 feet behind a Mississippi River levee in the heart of Plantation Country in Louisiana. I felt like I was ...

The Mississippi River is the second-longest river in the U.S., second only to the Missouri River. The river passes through 10 states: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky ...

It tells the story of the river, the Indigenous people who lived alongside it and the white settlers who came along to claim ...