with the French explorer Jacques Marquette reaching Iowa in 1673 and proving the first European maps of the Upper Mississippi River. Clayton County’s Marquette is named after him. By the early ...

A first-of-its-kind project seeking to restore river ecosystems along 39 miles of the Lower Mississippi River has federal ...

We revisit Here & Now's June 2024 conversation with Boyce Upholt about his book "The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi." It tells the story of the river, the Indigenous ...