Meriwether Lewis

The explorers’ crossing of the continent is America’s most famous camping trip. What was it all for?

Lacking a sufficient support system, Meriwether Lewis did not have anyone close enough to help him.

Lewis and Clark's influence on a nascent American literature.

After a brutal dog attack, a historian rethinks how to write about Lewis and Clark, focusing on lived pain, emotion, and the limits of understanding the past.

New evidence suggests that Sacagawea had a longer life than most historians have believed — fifty-seven years longer.

Unlike the statues of Lee and Jackson, these Charlottesville monuments had less to do with memory than they did with an imagined past.

Revisiting the arduous path of 18th-century fur trader Alexander Mackenzie.

Sacagawea is a symbol for everything from Manifest Destiny to women’s rights to American diversity. Except we don't know much about her.

When it comes to cicadas, the silence of the historical record can be deafening.

On ramps, xonacatl, skunk eggs and more.

Indigenous nations are spearheading a movement to restore buffalo to the American landscape.

A recent history centers the Lakota and the vast territory they controlled in the story of the formation of the United States.

Kristine K. Ronan describes her discovery of two Native American statues at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello.

James Callender spread scurrilous rumors about Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. Then he turned on Thomas Jefferson, too.

Celilo Falls was the economic and spiritual center of the Indian world in the Pacific Northwest.