Flood Of 1927
Weather History: The Great Flood of 1927
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The American Experience - Fatal Flood [VHS] $19.98 One of the greatest natural disasters in American history, the massive flood on the lower Mississippi in the spring of 1927, is thoughtfully and dramatically chronicled in this documentary, an installment of the American Experience series on PBS. If the flood had only pit man against nature, things would have been bad enough. The rising water jumped levies and inundated 27,000 square miles, and mo... |
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Documentary Movie About the 1927 Mississippi River Flood DVD (1936) featuring President Herbert Hoover in Film. $4.99 All the more relevant today in the wake of the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi River Flood of 1927 is a precious historical document of the carnage, poverty, and people whose lives were swept away by dreadful flooding. The most destructive flood in US history, the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 had far reaching political and social ramifications, like the moving of many poor African... |
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American Experience: Fatal Flood In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from Cairo, Illinois, to the Gulf of Mexico, inundating hundreds of towns, killing as many as a thousand people and leaving more than half a million homeless. Throughout the Delta, where the self-styled planter aristocrats ruled their black share croppers like feudal lords, the flood wrought a particular... |
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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America $4.65 When Mother Nature rages, the physical results are never subtle. Because we cannot contain the weather, we can only react by tabulating the damage in dollar amounts, estimating the number of people left homeless, and laying the plans for rebuilding. But as John M. Barry expertly details in Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, some calamities transf... |
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William Alexander Percy: The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker $21.00 In this evocative biography, Benjamin E. Wise presents the singular life of William Alexander Percy (1885-1942), a queer plantation owner, poet, and memoirist from Mississippi. Though Percy is best known as a conservative apologist of the southern racial order, in this telling Wise creates a complex and surprising portrait of a cultural relativist, sexual liberationist, and white supremacist.We f... |
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Lessons from the Great Depression For Dummies $19.99 An in-depth look at the lessons from one of the worst times in America's financial historyAre you worried about the economy? You're certainly not alone. According to most economists, the turmoil that Americans will face over the next four years will be the roughest financial times since the Great Depression-and many are looking backward to learn how to survive an ongoing and sustained economic dow... |