Finding New Horizons and Saving a Disappearing Language

Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google One good book can lead to another. My latest literary ...

Following the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail—and the Story It Left Out

On the eve of America’s 250th birthday, contributing writer Latria Graham travels cross-country in the footsteps of explorers ...
Milwaukee Magazine

A Local Gardener’s Book Traces the Surprising Mystery of Meriwether Lewis’ Missing Plants

In 1803, Thomas Jefferson charged Meriwether Lewis with finding a waterway linking the Mississippi River to the Pacific. Thus ...

A president, a secret message, and the fight over the exploration of the American West

On Jan. 18, 1803, Meriwether Lewis hand-delivered a secret message to Congress. Its author was Thomas Jefferson, the ...
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Drexel exhibit downplays Lewis and Clark discoveries in favor of 'Tribal Knowledge'

Drexel University recently opened an exhibit in connection with the 250th anniversary of the United States that showcases plants from Lewis and Clark’s collection from the perspective of Native ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Meriwether Lewis’ Mysterious Death

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 ...
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We’re Not Horsing Around with Lewis and Clark’s Incredible Link to the Kentucky Derby

In this debut episode, editor Tyler ventures back to the 1800s to check in with American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Their cross-country expedition not only changed the map of the ...