Floods and Flood Control
Links
Resources
- Arnold, Joseph L. The Evolution of the 1936
Flood Control Act. Fort Belvoir: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
1988.
- Changnon, Stanley A. ed. The Great Flood of
1993: Causes, Impacts, and Responses. Westview Press, 1996.
- Conrad, Glenn R., and Carl L. Brasseaux. Crevasse:
The 1927 Flood in Acadiana. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana
Studies, 1994.
- Daniel, Pete. Deep’n As It Come: The 1927
Mississippi River Flood. University of Arkansas Press, 1977.
- Elam, William E. Speeding Floods to the
Sea, or the Evolution of Flood Control Engineering on the
Mississippi River. New York: Hobson Book Press, 1946.
- Frank, Arthur D. The Development of the
Federal Program of Flood Control of the Mississippi River. New
York: Columbia University Press, 1930.
- Harrison, Robert W. Alluvial Empire: A
Study of State and Local Efforts toward Land Development in the
Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River. Little Rock:
Pioneer Press, 1961.
- Harrison, Robert W. Levee Districts and
Levee Building in Mississippi: A Study of State and Local Efforts to
Control Mississippi River Floods. Stoneville, Ms.: Delta Council
and Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station, 1951.
- Pabis, George S. "Delaying the Deluge:
The Engineering Debate over Flood Control on the Lower Mississippi
River, 1846-1861." Journal of Southern History 64
(August 1998).
- Reuss, Martin. Designing the Bayous: The
Control of Water in the Atchafalaya Basin, 1800-1995.
Alexandria: Office of History, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1998.
- Reuss, Martin. "The Army Corps of
Engineers and Flood-Control Politics on the Lower Mississippi."
Louisiana History 23 (Spring, 1982): 131-148.
- Rosen, Howard and Martin Reuss., eds. The
Flood Control Challenge: Past, Present, and Future. Chicago:
Public Works Historical Society, 1988.