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Author's Forum Presents: The Flood Year 1927: A Cultural History; A Conversation with Susan Parrish and Perrin Selcer

Wednesday, February 1, 2017
5:30-7:00 PM
Gallery, #100 Hatcher Graduate Library Map
U-M Professor of English Susan Parrish reads from her new book The Flood Year 1927: A Cultural History, followed by discussion with U-M Professor of History Perrin Selcer, then audience Q & A.

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, and the first environmental disaster to be experienced on a mass scale. The Flood Year 1927 draws from newspapers, radio broadcasts, political cartoons, vaudeville, blues songs, poetry, and fiction to show how this event took on public meanings.
Building: Hatcher Graduate Library
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Event Type: Other
Tags: Books, History, Media, Writing
Source: Happening @ Michigan from Institute for the Humanities, Program in the Environment (PitE), Science, Technology & Society, Department of History, Department of English Language and Literature