It was perhaps best exemplified nearly a century ago — during America's Great Mississippi Flood — both in terms of what to do, and in terms of what not to do. RELATED: Scientists say ...

By Christmas in Nashville, the Cumberland River, a Mississippi tributary, neared its highest-ever level. By February, the White River in Arkansas, another tributary, was at flood stage.

The 1927 Great Mississippi Flood had a profound socio-political effect on American history. It also had an impact on Carroll County. The flood propelled a great American leader, Robert Russa Moton ...

With the great Mississippi flood of 1927 quietly seeping into the Gulf of Mexico, attention turned toward preventing the river from ever again driving valley-dwellers from their homes in hundreds ...

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The Mississippi River is 46.9 feet high. Twenty years prior, there'd been a great flood — the flood of 1973. People referred to it constantly almost as a talisman to reassure themselves they'd ...