James,” by Percival Everett won the fiction prize, and Jason Roberts received the biography prize for “Every Living Thing.” ...

About 100 years ago, a steamboat capsized in the Mississippi River — a disaster that forced dozens of men, women and children ...

In the early hours of April 27, 1865, mere days after the end of the Civil War, the Sultana burst into flames along the ...

They’ll ask me whether there were any Hispanic or Native American people in the Civil War. I’m researching trying to keep one step ahead of them and then I think, ‘Sure enough. I have a book ...

History is written on the flood wall that protects St. Paul’s low-lying West Side from the Mississippi River. Just east of the Robert Street Bridge, a thin black line marks the crest of the ...

Given the scale of the quake, it would likely affect the civil war – “but in ways that are hard to predict”, he said. People gathered on the banks of the Irrawaddy River in front of the ...

AIRMONT CITY, ILL. – An Illinois family is demanding police do more after they said their loved one fell into the Mississippi River. They said it happened as he was being chased by police ...

The latest forecast from the National Weather Service shows the Mississippi River nearing the threshold for opening. The Bonnet Carré Spillway is designed to divert excess river water into Lake ...

The Mississippi River is considered the most endangered in the U.S. due to uncertainty over the Federal Emergency Management Agency's future, according to an environmental group based in ...

The Mississippi River's endangered status stems from uncertainty surrounding FEMA's future role in floodplain protection and infrastructure maintenance. FEMA plays a crucial role in disaster ...

The Mississippi River's endangered status stems from uncertainty surrounding FEMA's future role in floodplain protection and infrastructure maintenance. FEMA plays a crucial role in disaster response ...