For centuries, America’s relationship with the Mississippi has been fraught. The river’s central location and impressive length make it a crucial shipping route, but its channel is naturally shallow ...

Few people see the Mississippi River the way John Ruskey does. Ruskey runs Quapaw Canoe Company in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He and his team of guides lead tours of the river in wooden dugout canoes, ...

We revisit Here & Now's June 2024 conversation with Boyce Upholt about his book "The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi." It tells the story of the river, the Indigenous people ...

When we look out at the Mississippi River, beyond the levee we usually see the always-swirling, muddy water with busy freighters, tows and barges, tugboats and the like sailing the river or moored at ...

In mid-April 1927, 98 years ago this week, another deluge of torrential rain tipped the Mississippi River basin into a historic flood that remains among the most destructive in U.S. history. The ...

The Mississippi River is a unique creature. It’s an inland sea perpetually on the move. It drains a continent. It gathers other great rivers into its fold and flows forever on. It has countless ...

Thanks to “Ol’ Man River,” the Broadway show tune made famous by Paul Robeson, many of us grew up thinking of the Mississippi River not merely as a piece of geography but a giant personality. That ...