Brad Winn, site superintendent since 2001, has helped the Lewis and Clark State Historic Site attract 100,000 visitors each ...

A recent episode of the YouTube series “History Traveler” made me aware of a site in Illinois called Camp Dubois, where the ...

Today's guest botanist Rick McCourt tells the story of Lewis and Clark's collection of plant samples that went on a wild journey after the Corps of Discovery expedition came to ...

President Thomas Jefferson engineered the purchase of Louisiana from the French (800,000 square miles for 15 million dollars) ...

The carefully taped and pressed plants stored in bespoke cabinets in the Academy of Natural Sciences lost their color long ago, but that's understandable. They were plucked from the ground over ...

In May of 1804, an expedition commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson set out to map the newly acquired land from the Louisiana Purchase and find a connecting waterway to the Pacific Ocean for ...

Over two years, a man named York trekked some 8,000 miles from St. Louis to the Pacific Northwest and back, hunting, tracking, foraging and, at least once, voting as a Black man held in bondage by ...

Stroll the South Clatsop Slough boardwalk (keeps your feet dry above the marsh) and you will see more of the plants that Lewis collected including salmonberry and salal. While both plants are common ...

According to an internal Lewis and Clark High School email, the school’s athletic department hired David Chambless as its new head football coach. Spokane Public Schools confirmed the hire via ...

The National Transportation Safety Board shared a new list of bridges that could be at risk of collapsing or breaking if they are hit by a vessel. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy recommends critical ...