Mississippi

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Along the Mississippi the spirit of vanished culture lingers in the ruined columns of the great plantations</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> “An unconquerable mind in a frame of iron”</span><br /><span class="typestyle"> Forgotten paintings by George Catlin, who saw the West unspoiled, turn up again to recall the marvels that unfolded before the eyes of the heroic French explorer</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> IN THE DELTA</span> </p>

<p>A Scottish émigré became the most powerful man in the French government, and sold hundreds of thousands of shares in land holdings in the Mississippi Valley</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A Tireless Photographer’s Record of a River Town</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The 1,200-Mile Race Between the Natchez and the</span> Robert E. Lee </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Robert Johnson died in obscurity in 1938. Since then, he has gradually gained recognition as a genius of American music. Only recently have the facts of his short, tragic life become known.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Deep South states are taking the lead in promoting landmarks of a 300-year heritage of oppression and triumph, and they’re drawing visitors from around the world.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Before there was William Faulkner, there was the small Southern universe of Oxford, Mississippi.</span></p>

<p>Willie Morris interviews William Ferris, a connoisseur and chronicler of everything Southern.</p>

<p><span class="deck">Unloved and unlovely, the fragile boats of the “Tinclad Navy” ventured, Lincoln said, “wherever the ground was a little damp,” and made a contribution to the war that has never been sufficiently appreciated.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><lead_in> WILLIE MORRIS</lead_in> revisits a book that nourished him as a boy and discovers that the landscapes which the young Samuel Clemens navigated are in fact the topography of Morris’ own life.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Although marred by the grisly murders of three young activists, the Freedom Summer of 1964 brought revolutionary changes to Mississippi and the nation.</span></p>

<p>In a pivotal trip in 1967, Senator Kennedy saw first-hand the effects of poverty in the Delta.</p>

<p>In 1673, a Jesuit missionary, a fur trader, and a small group of canoe men traveled 2000 miles from what is now upper Michigan down to Arkansas and back. </p>

<p>An honest telling of history, including deeply disturbing events such as the murder of Emmett Till, allows us to look at our past in a richer and more meaningful way. </p>