The Public "I"

  As early as 1743 French King Louis XV required settlers in his Louisiana colony to build levees to restrain the Mississippi River floods -...

  The way the story is usually told is that only after realizing his Desoto canal would not work, did Major General Ulysses Grant turn to th...

  Ulysses Grant(above)  had tried to avoid the Mississippi River. In November of 1862 he made his first attempt to capture Vicksburg high an...