Wright Thompson tells a piercing biography about a barn in the Mississippi Delta, the history of the surrounding landscape ...

In 1919 some cotton in the Mississippi Delta was selling for a dollar a pound ... Almost forty thousand farms went into foreclosure. Across the state 115 banks had failed in just two years.

The United States grows nearly 20 billion pounds of rice every year, and for over 50 years, one Southeastern state has ...

In 1904 a sharecropper named Henry Sloan lived in Dockery, Mississippi. He played rhythmic dancing music on a guitar. Patient zero of the Delta blues ... from the Dockery Farms headquarters ...

On Sunday morning, Aug. 28, 1955, 18-year-old Willie Reed took a short walk to Patterson’s country store in Sunflower County, ...

which snakes along the Mississippi River through the heart of the Arkansas Delta. The rural community, where crops like soybeans and cotton have sustained the agricultural economy for generations ...

Farms like Katrutsa’s make up just a sliver of roughly 10.7 million acres of Tennessee farmland largely dominated by hay, soybeans, corn and cotton ... in the mid-Mississippi delta as ripe ...

It follows the curdling of the Mississippi Delta as the global cotton markets rise and then ... When he returned home to farm, he lived with his family in a small tenant house east of town. The crop ...

Ricks Memorial Library is steeped in history when it comes to its Yazoo connection and in the state, serving as the one of ...