When Meriwether Lewis led the Corps of Discovery out of St. Louis and into the Louisiana Territory in 1803, he was an obscure government officer. When he returned three years later, he was a national ...

Meriwether Lewis died in October 1809. Most researchers claim that he took his own life, but some debate that he could have been murdered. In October 1809, newspapers across the U.S. ran a startling ...

Controversy over Meriwether Lewis' death has descendants and scholars campaigning to exhume his body at his grave site in Tennessee. Connie Ricca / Corbis Captain Meriwether Lewis—William Clark’s ...

Click to open image viewer. To commemorate the bicentennial of the official launch of the Lewis and Clark expedition on May 14, 1804, a special 32-page prestige booklet, Lewis & Clark: The Corps of ...

Chronology -- Prologue -- "We descended with great velocity" The triumphant return of the Lewis and Clark Expedition -- "All the red men are my children" Lewis and Sheheke's visit to Thomas Jefferson ...

The Kentucky Derby is a global sports spectacle and, in the eyes of many, America’s definitive sporting tradition. The event was forged, remarkably, by two of the great epic events in United States ...

Today, well follow the Lewis and Clark Expedition as they return to civilization. Well also discuss the lives of a few key figures post-expedition. Whatever happened to Sacagawea? Is it true she lived ...