Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Homer Plessy was a Louisiana black man who boarded a “whites only” railroad car. He was arrested and…
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The March-April Issue Is Here
Check out our list of stories and their online release dates in the latest Miller-McCune.
California Floods of 1995
DATE: January and March 1995 LOCATION: California DEATHS: 27 ESTIMATED COST: $4 billion* WHAT HAPPENED: “El Niño” conditions…
Midwestern Floods of 2008
DATE: June 2008 LOCATION: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin DEATHS: 24 ESTIMATED COST: $15 billion* WHAT HAPPENED: Despite…
Great Flood of 1951
DATE: July 1951 LOCATION: Kansas and Missouri DEATHS: 28 ESTIMATED COST: $21 billion* WHAT HAPPENED: Intense rainfall from…
Great Flood of 1993
DATE: May through September 1993 LOCATION: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin DEATHS:…
1972 Black Hills-Rapid City Flood
DATE: June 1972 LOCATION: South Dakota DEATHS: 238, with more than 3,000 injured ESTIMATED COST: $826 million *…
‘Toxic’ alter ego: Sago Palm
Pet owners and parents beware. The sago palm wants you to think it’s just a pretty addition to…
‘Inferno’ alter ego: Cogongrass
Wanted dead, never alive. Having taken up root on every continent except Antarctica, cogongrass is considered one of…
‘Stingstro’ alter ego: The Stinging Tree
Australia is home to some of the world’s most deadly animals including the box jellyfish, the funnel-web spider,…