JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – With the deadly aftermath of Texas flooding on many Americans’ minds, few alive today remember the unprecedented flooding that spanned across Mississippi and six other states.

Ninety years ago, the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers — swollen from months of rainfall — burst through levees, sending muddy water into businesses, homes and farmland across Louisiana. Families ...

Nearly 100 years after one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history, Louisiana is marking the legacy of the Great Flood of 1927. Anthony Joshua delivers brutal threat for Jake Paul fight, while ...

Introduction -- Modern overflow -- A Northern army of relief -- Cross talk in the press -- Bessie's eclogue -- Catastrophe comes to Vaudeville -- William Faulkner and the machine age watershed -- ...

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In the latter part of August 1926, the sky darkened over much of the central United States and a heavy rain began to fall. Rain pelted first Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas and Oklahoma, then edged ...

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 ...