William Clark

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

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.

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

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

To understand westward expansion, the Trail of Tears, the history of Manifest Destiny, and the impacts to Native Americans, one must understand its buildup.

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

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

Mussel Slough reminds us that the Feds never fight fair and that people can rise up and reform the system.

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

As the 150th Kentucky Derby kicks off, the achievements of jockey Oliver Lewis and trainer Ansel Williamson at the first Derby have been largely forgotten.

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

In the history of St. Louis, we find both a radical and reactionary past—and a more hopeful future too.

Before beanie babies and Pogs, small rectangles of cardboard were the errant investments of a stratifying American society.

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

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