The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

Since the Mississippi Delta was the last area of the South to be settled, after the Civil War, the state became among the most reactionary and repressive states for African Americans. Blacks lived ...

Intense drought conditions are causing water levels of the 2,300-mile-long Mississippi River to drop ... relic collector Riley Bryant found Civil War-era bullets and a union U.S. cartridge box ...