President-elect Trump has floated the idea the United States may purchase Greenland in his previous term, but he is far from ...

As American cities go, New Orleans is unique in so many ways, including its coffee culture -- and chicory is a major part of ...

With Tuesday marking the 161st anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address, Lincoln historian Steve Beckett shares ...

Inside the riverfront museum, a map locates the likely epicenters ... in 1806 to the "District of Arkansas," a part of Louisiana Territory's New Madrid County. The district's population in the ...

The brutal and unforgiving American frontier created a different kind of man. These explorers, fur trappers, guides, and ...

After the U.S. gained independence, the 1795 Treaty of Friendship set the Mississippi River as the border between Spanish Louisiana and the U.S. When the Arkansas Territory was created in 1819 ...

After the U.S. gained independence, the 1795 Treaty of Friendship set the Mississippi River as the border between Spanish Louisiana ... of Arkansas. Map shows the Arkansas territory, which was ...

Ohio trivia time: Ohio became a state in 1803, the same year the Louisiana Purchase was completed ... (many of whom were French fur trappers exploring the wild Northwest Territory) must have been ...

This was a United States expedition to discover the new western territories that were part of the Louisiana Purchase ... and aimed to map the newly acquired territory. President Thomas Jefferson ...

The point of the exhibition was to map the new territory acquired after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Though this is not specifically a hiking trail, there are opportunities to go boating, ...