Drowned Delta: The Infrastructural Collapse of the Great Mississippi Flood

The Mississippi River is the central artery of American commerce, but it is also a sleeping monster. For decades, the Army Corps of Engineers attempted to cage the river with a "e;levees-only"e; policy, arrogantly assuming that building taller dirt walls would force the water into submission. In the spring of 1927, the river violently proved them wrong. The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was th...