When President Thomas Jefferson closed on this $15 million ... National Archives The Louisiana Purchase, which more than doubled the size of the existing United States, provided Easterners with ...

The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of the ... Horatio Gates, a prominent New York state legislator, told President Thomas Jefferson when details of the deal reached Washington, D.C ...

In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Jefferson Parish, the Friends of Jefferson Public Library are selling resin busts ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be linked ... were some notable achievements in his first term, with the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark mission topping the list.

“Thomas Jefferson,” the ambitious ... affair (“It was a huge scandal,” says Ms. Gordon-Reed) with the Louisiana Purchase, which may have increased the geographic area of the U.S. by ...

Thomas Jefferson, the third president, was born on April 13, 1743. Several years ago, my wife Louise and I had celebrated by ...

The Lewis and Clark State Historic Site will commemorate the 221st anniversary of the start of the Lewis and Clark Expedition ...