Geography provides a sense of place. What a country has, in terms of strategic location and natural resources, can determine its role in the world. See why geography matters in this collection of stories.
President Thomas Jefferson asked one of his key aides, twenty-eight-year-old Meriwether Lewis, to lead an expedition west - all the way to the "wester...
Thomas Jefferson appointed Captain Merriwether Lewis to be his personal secretary.
Despite dreadful conditions and too-few horses, Lewis & Clark reach the Great Falls on June 13, 1805. Sacagawea soon makes a remarkable discovery, lea...
As the Corps of Discovery pushed forward, into the heart of the Great Plains, the explorers saw "little toy dogs.
With Shoshone horses and a Shoshone guide, Lewis and Clark forged ahead with their men.
This clip, about how the Great Wall of China was built, explains how the various sections of it were linked together.
Winning athletes who competed in the Olympic stadium (including barefooted runners) were crowned with wreaths made from sacred olive trees.
Locusts hatch from eggs in the ground.
A judicial inquiry into the reasons for the wreck was headed by Lord Mersey, a fair man.
Russell Phillips - whom his crew mates called "Phil" - was still alive when this story about Louie's life was produced.
Just west of the Old Head of Kinsale on Irelands southern coast, Lusitania was about fourteen miles offshore.
This 1918 animation, by the famous cartoonist Winsor McCay (1867-1934), depicts the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania, a ship of the Cunard Line.
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