The thousand-year flood
The Ohio-Missisippi Disaster of 1937
by David Welky
How the Ohio River Valley flood of 1937 came about, what happened and how it was handled by various governments, private agencies, and individual citizens.
Politics and governmentHistoryFloodsNew Deal, 1933-1939Disaster reliefUnited states, history, 20th centuryUnited states, politics and government, 1933-1945