William Faulkner's Mississippi

The Mississippi Mass Choir Live!

The Mississippi Mass Choir was one of the most influential gospel groups of the late '80s and '90s. Under the musical direction of David R. Curry, the 100-voice choir served their Lord with a sound that made them a const

America: The Great Mississippi

The mighty Mississippi River is celebrated in by folk, pop and country singers.

Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis

Rare proshot from 1986

The Darkest Cave in Mississippi

When he was just 5 years old, his father told him a story. To this day, he's never forgotten his words.

Visiting Slovaks from New York through to Mississippi

Having finished his film Jánošík (1935), Plicka embarks on the journey of a lifetime. Accompanied by a Slovak-Czech delegation of politicians, inventors, and cultural representatives, he is particularly interested in the

John Law and the Mississippi Bubble

One of the most sensational get-rich-quick schemes that took place in France over 200 years ago with economist John Law at the helm.

Greybeard: The Man, the Myth, the Mississippi

Dale "GREYBEARD" Sanders challenges himself to set another world record at 87 years old. This time he is trying to reclaim his title as the oldest person to paddle the full source to sea on the Mississippi River.

Last of the Mississippi Jukes

Der Mississippi: Die Seele Amerikas

Old Natchez on the Mississippi

This Traveltalks short focuses on the city's preservation of the architecture, apparel, and customs of the antebellum South.

The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools

In The Harvest, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas A. Blackmon looks back at how school integration transformed his hometown of Leland, Mississippi. After the 1954 Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public

America of the seventies. On the banks of the Mississippi

In the next episode of the series "America of the Seventies" political observer Valentin Zorin travels through the most "European" city in the USA, the capital of jazz - New Orleans. Throughout the country from the north

Drain the Oceans: The Mississippi River

From a steamboat in a cornfield to the true story behind Hurricane Katrina's floods, new discoveries reveal how the Mississippi river shaped America.

Trains Along the Upper Mississippi Volume 1

Flanking the western shore of the upper Mississippi River runs Canadian Pacific's River Subdivision, a busy main line that supports a nonstop flow of traffic. Pentrex traveled the line in 1999, through hot summer days an

Trains Along The Upper Mississippi Volume 2

Tracing the eastern banks of the upper Mississippi River is BNSF’s St. Croix Subdivision, a mostly double-tracked route providing access for a nonstop parade of traffic from La Crosse, Wisconsin to Minneapolis/St. Paul,

Troubled Waters: A Mississippi River Story

Farming practices in America's heartland, including excess fertilizers and poor soil conservation, have wrought unintended yet severe consequences on the Mississippi River. Fortunately, farmers, scientists, and citizens

The Mississippi Mass Choir: God Gets The Glory

The Mississippi Mass Choir's second album, God Gets The Glory, was recorded live at the Mississippi Coliseum on December 8, 1990. The album debuted on the Billboard chart in the Number 16 position, reaching Number 1 posi

The Fingerpicking Blues of Mississippi John Hurt

This lesson is filled with the songs, licks, sounds and techniques that make Mississippi John Hurt’s music so popular. John Sebastian and Happy Traum, whose friendship goes back to the sixties, had the privilege of knowi

Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story

While filming a documentary in Mississippi in 1965, Frank De Felitta forever changed the life of an African-American waiter and his family. In 2011, Frank's son returns to the Delta to examine the repercussions of that f