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 "Opening the Vault" exhibit features records that are rarely taken out of the National Archives, including the Louisiana ...

The Louisiana Purchase was a monumental land acquisition in 1803. There the United States bought a vast territory from France. This extraordinary deal effectively doubled the size of the young nation, ...

It’s been described as the greatest real estate purchase in the history of the United States — President Thomas Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase in 1803. And while it reaches far beyond Southeast ...

In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson got the steal of a lifetime: The Louisiana Purchase. At the time, Napoleon Bonaparte — once intent upon expanding the French empire — offered the 530 million acres ...

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 ...

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 ...