A map, drawn by Native American Arikara tribal leader and guide Too Né for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, was recently ...

We’ve published a new interactive map of the 2024 election that shows results by precinct, the most detailed vote data ...

The designs Pierre L'Enfant created for George Washington spearheaded the development of Washington, D.C., as it stands today.

The United States had just purchased 55 per cent of Mexico for US$15 million as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

The U.S. initially acquired the rights to build and operate the Panama Canal in 1903 through the Hay–Bunau–Varilla Treaty which gave the U.S. a 10-mile wide strip of land for a one-time payment of $10 ...

While the United States is no stranger to making land purchases ... Today, that would cost approximately $124 million today.

I think it is impossible to exaggerate the historical consequences and impact of railroads on United States history. Their ...

It was the end of January 1847. The USS Lexington, a sloop of war, lay at anchor in Monterey Bay. The small transport had ...

the United States declared war on Mexico, resulting in the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. Under the treaty’s terms in 1848, Mexico gave up approximately 525,000 square miles (55% of its prewar ...

A person in Louisiana contracted the nation's first serious human case of avian influenza, or bird flu, and was admitted to the hospital in recent days, according to the Centers for Disease ...

Click here to see them. As of Dec. 19, bird flu has been reported during the past three years in more than 125 million birds in 569 counties and all 50 U.S. states, according to the CDC.