Backwater blues: the Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American imagination

Down the line: blues brilliance, displacement, and living under the shadow of levees

Burning waters rise: Richard Wright's Blues Voice and the double environmental burden of race

Racialized charity and the militarization of flood relief in postwar America

Where sixteen railroads meet the sea: migration and the making of Houston's Frenchtown

Every day seems like murder here: the Mississippi flood control project in New Deal-era America.