“Reimagining America: The Maps of Lewis and Clark” will be on display at the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center in Great Falls through Dec. 4 to share some of the maps that influenced the westward ...

In the Spring of 1803, the United States acquired the Territory of Louisiana, a largely uncharted tract of wilderness stretching from Canada all the way down to New Orleans, over 800,000 square miles ...

On Nov. 15, 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the shores of the Pacific Ocean a year and a half after starting out from St. Louis, Missouri. The explorers poled keelboats and sometimes ...

On Aug. 31, 1803, Meriwether Lewis launched his 50-foot boat about 100 yards downriver from where the David L. Lawrence Convention Center now sits. For people who remember their elementary school ...

Many Americans are familiar with the exploration efforts of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's Corps of Discovery as an early 19th century effort to find an all-water route to the Pacific Ocean.

New London — In a room of television monitors on the Lyman Allyn Art Museum campus last week, famed explorer Robert Ballard watched as the Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute at the University of ...

Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led the first American expedition. Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of ...

AT one point in his famous survey of the American political character, Alexis de Tocqueville observed that Americans made no effort to collect or preserve their historical records. “The only ...

There are so many lessons and morals to be drawn from the expedition of Lewis and Clark that each generation tends to pick a new one according to its temperament and needs. Here is one that seems ...