The excellent Cornerstones of Freedom series provides more information about key events and people in American History book than students or teachers will find in their textbooks. The scope of the series has expanded as evidenced by this particular volume, which actually came out the year after "The Mississippi Flood of 1993." This book offers stories about the places flooded and the people affect during what was the worst flood in U.S. history. The book is filled with photographs of flooded homes and businesses as well as people trying to fight the river and help each other survive. I was surprised they did not include some of the satellite photos I remember showing the Mississippi before and during the flood; even from space the difference in the river was astonishing. Karin Luisa Badt provides a nice cross-section of what happened along the 2,340 miles of the river. Also, because the book came out so soon afterwards, young readers will not find complete statistics on all the damage caused by the flood.