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Changing Course: Daniel McCool on Dams, Water, and Our River Future
Episode 87
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Author and professor Daniel McCool grew up exploring the rivers, creeks, and streams near his Indiana home. When his career took him …
15 hours ago
Down Colombia’s Magdalena River with Jordan Salama
Episode 86
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The Magdalena River slices a thousand miles through the heart of Colombia. Jordan Salama spent four weeks one summer following the co…
1 week, 5 days ago
From Colonial Kitchens to Concretes: Two Centuries of St. Louis Food with Suzanne Corbett
Episode 85
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In this episode, we dig into St. Louis culinary history with food historian Suzanne Corbett. We look back at the foodways of indigeno…
4 weeks ago
The Riverboat Gambler: Myth, Reality, and the Making of an American Icon with Thomas Ruys Smith
Episode 84
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Stories about riverboat gambling and gamblers persist to this day. Why? In this episode, I talk with historian and author Thomas Ruys…
1 month, 1 week ago
The First People of the Mississippi Valley, Part 2: A Big Bang and First Contact
Episode 83
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A thousand years ago, the largest city north of Mexico rose from the floodplain across the river from present-day St. Louis. In part …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The First People of the Mississippi Valley, Part 1: Creation, Mounds, and the Path of Souls
Episode 82
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In this episode (part one of a two-part series), we trace the first ten thousand years of human life along the Mississippi Valley: wh…
2 months, 1 week ago
The American Bottom In Focus, with Photographer Jennifer Colten
Episode 81
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The area we call the American Bottom is a widening in the Mississippi River floodplain that runs some 70 miles in Illinois from Alton…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
From Great Sewer to Great River: How the Twin Cities Brought a Dead Mississippi River Back to Life
Episode 80
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A hundred years ago, the Mississippi River that ran through Minneapolis and Saint Paul was basically a dead river. Factories, people,…
3 months ago
Deep Time on the Mississippi: The River's Geologic Origins and Future with Roy Van Arsdale
Episode 79
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How do you tell the story of a river that's tens of millions of years in the making? In Episode 79, I sit down with Dr. Roy Van Arsda…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The Decades-Long Effort to Tame the Wild Mississippi River: How Engineers Reshaped America's Greatest River
Episode 78
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In this episode, I talk with Dr. David Beadenharn, a river engineer who has spent over 45 years studying the lower Mississippi River.…
4 months, 2 weeks ago