remember: 1) the 20th centuryindustrialist will not invest much of his money in a 19th centurystate; 2) is mississippi condemnedalways to be 20 years behind the parade of progress?beneath those ...

The steamer Mist, bound from Helena to Memphis, while making a landing on the Mississippi side of the river, fifteen miles above Helena, on the 21st inst., was boarded by ten or fifteen guerrillas ...

A Baton Rouge, Louisiana, resident hunting for artifacts in the Mississippi River was amazed to find the wreck of a 19th-century ship in the drought-stricken waterway, CNN affiliate WBRZ reports.

Drought has unearthed a sunken 19th-century shipwreck and human remains in the Mississippi River. The Mississippi River is receding to historic lows amid drought across the Midwest. More discoveries ...

With a vastness that captures the essence of the great upheavals of the nation in the 1800s, the New Orleans Museum of Art fashions a collection of photography and paintings ...

In Cecil Summer's "The Governors of Mississippi," we learn more. "In 1891 Lowry and newspaperman William H. McCardle prepared and published a "History of Mississippi." A shorter version of this ...

A prolonged drought has dried up the Mississippi River, revealing a centuries-old shipwreck and skeletal remains. The river, a major shipping route, reached record-low levels this week amid ...