Niger Delta/Mississippi River Links

Mississippi River

General Mississippi River Links

• Mississippi River Home Page
• Capt. Randy's River Pages
• Capt. Jimmy's Mississippi River System
• Mississippi Delta Studio, Spring 2000. University of Pennsylvania

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Brief History
• Mississippi Valley Division
• Mississippi River Commission History Center
• New Orleans District
• Vicksburg District
• Making Water Work: The Vicksburg District, 1977-1991.
• The Vicksburg Victory: The Vicksburg District in World War II.
• Memphis District
• Memphis District PowerPoint presentations
• St. Louis District
• Rock Island District
• Rock Island District Overview
• St. Paul District
• St. Paul District History page
• Waterway's Experiment Station

Exhibits

• The River Runs Through It: New Orleans and the Mississippi. Online exhibit at the New Orleans Public Library
• Louisiana and the Mighty Mississippi. A permanent exhibit at the Louisiana State Museum
• Freshly Brewed: The Coffee Trade and the Port of New Orleans. A permanent exhibit at the Louisiana State Museum
• Louisiana Purchase Exhibit. Louisiana's Old State Capitol

Museums

• Mississippi River Museum/National Rivers Hall of Fame. Dubuque, Iowa.
• Mud Island Riverpark. Mississippi River Museum and Riverwalk in Memphis
• LSU Rural Life Museum. Baton Rouge
• West Baton Rouge Museum
• River Road African American Museum
• Louisiana State Museum. New Orleans
• National Center for the Mississippi River

Mark Twain

• About.com Guide to Mark Twain
• Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies
• Mark Twain: A Biography by Albert Bigelow Paine
• Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site
• Mark Twain in His Times.
• The Mark Twain Papers and Project
• Mark Twain. Home page for the Ken Burns documentary on Mark Twain.
• Peter Salwen's Mark Twain Page
• Mark Twain texts online:
• Life on the Mississippi
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This site includes illustrations and reviews.
• Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. This site includes illustrations and reviews.
• The Tragedy of Puddn'head Wilson
• The Tragedy of Puddn'head Wilson. This site includes illustrations and reviews.

River Culture

• River of Song. A Smithsonian series on contemporary music along the Mississippi River. PBS web site has information on the the project, a video, and a music CD.
• Mark Twain. Ken Burns documentary.
• The River. A 1938 documentary by Pare Lorentz.
• Delta Blues Museum
• Noted Louisiana photographer C. C. Lockwood's trip down the Mississippi River.
• The Prints of Henry P. Bosse. Late 19th century photographs of the Upper Mississippi River.

Native Americans

• Chucalissa archaeological park and museum. Memphis. A late Mississippian town managed as an archaeological park by the University of Memphis.
• Effigy Mounds National Monument. NPS prehistoric Native American site in Northeast Iowa.
• Grand Village of the Natchez Indians
• Marksville State Historic Site, Louisiana
• Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center at the University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse
• Poverty Point. (Select Poverty Point under State Commemorative Areas). Prehistoric site in Northeast Louisiana
• Tunica-Biloxi Museum, Louisiana
• Winterville Mounds, Mississippi.
• A Brief Culture History of Iowa. Office of the State Archaeologist, University of Iowa.
• Native Americans in Illinois

The Colonial River

• Archaeology at French Colonial Cahokia by Bonnie L. Gums.
• The French Heritage of St. Louis, 1764-1804.
• Colonial Louisiana.
• Archaeology at the Cabildo. New Orleans.

The Mississippi Valley Frontier

• Old Fort Madison Historic Site. Fort Madison, Iowa. Established in 1808, Fort Madison was the first United States military post on the Upper Mississippi River.
• Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis
• A Territorial Period Site in Dubuque

Louisiana Purchase

• Louisiana Purchase Exhibit. Louisiana's Old State Capitol
• Louisiana Purchase site at the Avalon Project at Yale Law School.

Historic Sites

• Old Fort Madison Historic Site. Fort Madison, Iowa. Established in 1808, Fort Madison was the first United States military post on the Upper Mississippi River.
• Plaquemine Lock, historic lock on Mississippi River and Bayou Plaquemine.
• Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis

River Road Plantations in Louisiana

• Destrehan Plantation
• Houmas House
• Laura Plantation. A Creole plantation.
• LaBranche Plantation
• Oak Alley Plantation
• Ormond Plantation
• Rosewood Plantation
• San Francisco Plantation
• Tezcuco Plantation

The Military Experience in the Valley

• Civil War Louisiana. In A Medley of Cultures by Kimberly S. Hanger. Select publications. Chapter 8 in pdf format.
• Historic Fort Snelling, 1820s fort at Minneapolis-St. Paul.
• Port Hudson. (Select Port Hudson under State Commemorative Area). Civil War battlefield.
• The United States Navy in the Civil War (Western Rivers and Gulf of Mexico)
• Fort Pike. Louisiana
• Confederate Civil War Museum. New Orleans
• Fort Jackson. Louisiana

Archives

• Amistad Center. New Orleans.
• Historic New Orleans Collection. New Orleans.
• Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

Environment

• Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana
• Friends of the Mississippi River. Working to protect and enhance the Mississippi River in the Twin Cities area
• Lower Mississippi River Conservation Committee
• Mississippi Headwaters Board
• Mississippi River Basin Alliance
• Mississippi River Research Consortium
• Upper Mississippi Basin Stakeholder Network
• Upper Mississippi River Campaign. National Audubon Society.
• Upper Mississippi River Conservation Committee

Navigation

• American Sternwheel Association
• Secrets of a Master Builder: How James Eads Tamed the Mighty Mississippi.. PBS documentary.
• Plaquemine Lock State Historic Park
• The Nine-Foot Channel Navigation Project

Floods and Flood Control

• Fatal Flood. PBS documentary on the flood of 1927.
• Robert W. Harrison and Joseph F. Mooney, Jr. Flood Control and Water Management in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta. 1993.
• The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Success Story.
• Flood of 1993. Rock Island District Post-Flood Report

Tourism

• American Heritage Rivers Initiative
• Steamboat Natchez
• Great River Road. Presented by the Mississippi River Parkway Commission.

Rivers

• American Rivers
• American Heritage Rivers
• The Waterways Journal Weekly
• American Rivers Bibliography

Nigeria

Niger River

• Niger Basin Authority
• GEF - Niger Basin Regional Workshop in Niamey (15-18th April 2002) : "Reversing land and water degradation trends in the Niger River Basin"
• Niger River Basin information
• Niger Basin Initiative. Wetlands International
• The River Niger: River of Rivers.
• Rivers at Risk: Niger River
• Niger Delta Congress

Petroleum

• Nigeria: Oil and Gas Industry
• Shell Nigeria

Environment

• Environmental Liaison. African Environmental News Service

History

• Niger Delta Matters. Urhobo Historical Society

River Improvement/Dredging

• Niger River dredging project.

Environmental Justice/Human Rights

• Amnesty International: Nigeria
• Human Rights Watch: Nigeria