The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of the United States and the cost of about four cents an acre was a breathtaking bargain. The Granger Collection, New York UNDERSTANDABLY, Pierre Clément ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Louisiana Purchase changed the trajectory of U.S. expansion in the beginning of the 19th century, allowing the size of the ...

The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 was a landmark agreement in which the United States acquired vast territory from France for ...

The United States emerged from the Revolutionary War with its independence, but the young nation remained vulnerable to foreign powers. Both France and Spain claimed territory west of the original ...

WASHINGTON (WCSC) - The United States Senate ratified a landmark treaty that doubled the size of the country and fundamentally changed its trajectory on Oct. 14, 1803. It was on that date that the ...

IF the secret police of Paris, whose business it was to intercept letters for the private guidance of the First Consul in the spring of 1803, had chanced to peer through the windows of a certain ...

At the end of a two-mile, heavily wooded road in the Delta is one of the last headwater swamps in America and home to a variety of endangered animals, rare swamp cottonwood and the site where ...

A rare Louisiana Purchase document will be on display at the old Louisiana State Capitol for public viewing this spring beginning April 14. Secretary of State Nancy Landry said the “Bought for a Song: ...

The Louisiana Purchase changed the trajectory of U.S. expansion in the beginning of the 19th century, allowing the size of the country to grow by 530,000,000 acres. And at only a cost to the U.S. of ...