Americans knew nothing about the new land the government purchased from France and named “District of Louisiana.” The Corps ...

On Sept. 23, 1806, U.S. explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark returned to St. Louis on their historic journey from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast and back.

A new historical highway marker has been approved for King and Queen County to recognize an early colonial immigrant John Lewis, an ancestor of Meriwether Lewis of Lewis and Clark expedition fame.

User-Created Clip by zlowe September 8, 2023 Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and author and historian Douglas Brinkley talked about the expedition of Lewis and Clark and the expansion of the ...

When Meriwether Lewis and William Clark returned to St. Louis in the fall of 1806 after more than two years of exploring the American west, they brought a wealth of new knowledge.

Lewis and Clark and the American West In the first of several programs on great expeditions and their leaders, Landon Jones introduces us to Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition spent Christmas 1803 encamped near the site of this past weekend’s Arrival event, and Tuzzo said it would have been a low-key holiday.

Foundations | Lewis and Clark Expedition, Fritillaria affinis 1804-1806 Courtesy of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Ewall Sale Stewart Library Courtesy of The Academy of Natural ...

Thomas P. Lowry has a blunt way with book titles. His latest, Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (University of Nebraska Press), adorns a study that is direct and brief, with one ...

In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson authorized Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explore the rugged American interior. A black man named York was part of that fabled voyage. Producer Roy Hurst ...

To that end, the Army this month held a Pentagon launch of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration, complete with a living, breathing link to the expedition: Army Capt. Meriwether A. Sale Jr.