Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America

In 1927, the Mississippi River swept across an area roughly equal in size to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont combined, leaving water as deep as thirty feet on the land stretchin…

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