Monuments Upon the Tumultuous Earth – Boyce Upholt

For thousands of years, the southern Mississippi River has been
shaping the land it traverses—and the structures humans have built
along it. Over vast stretches of time, Indigenous societies were
building hundred-foot pyramids, fifty-acre plazas, and intricate
clusters of hillocks along this wild waterway. In this narrated
essay, Boyce Upholt charts the shifting course of the river and the
civilizations that have emerged alongside it. Beholding the
2,200-mile levee system that now curbs the river’s torrent, he
wonders: what do our monuments say about who we are—and the crises
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