After deliberating for nine days, the captains choose the tortuous southwest branch of the Missouri toward the Great Falls
Taking care of the nation's treasures requires art, history and even molecular science
He made little headway with President Grant, but Red Cloud won over the 19th century's greatest photographers
Buoyed by his reelection but dismayed by rulings of the justices who stopped his New Deal programs, a president overreaches
After a canoe capsizes, the first sight of the mountainous "snowey barrier" lifts the corps' spirits
For some stories, the roots go way back, even to childhood
The eruption of Mount St. Helens 25 years ago this month was no surprise. But the speedy return of wildlife to the area is astonishing
A kinder, gentler tax form is on the way
After a winter of waiting, the corps leaves Fort Mandan and heads warily into bear country
During Prohibition, an odd alliance of special interests argued beer was vital medicine
Excavations in a legendary gold rush town uncover the unsung labors of Chinese immigrants on the frontier
Jerry Seinfeld's silly, frilly prop takes its place in television history
Momentous or merely memorable
With a little help from a rattlesnake's rattle, Sacagawea gives birth to a baby she names Jean Baptiste
The shooting of protester James Meredith 38 years ago, searingly documented by a rookie photographer, galvanized the civil rights movement
African-American architect Julian Abele is finally getting recognition for his contributions to some of 20th-century America's most prestigious buildings
Sixty-five years after Russell Lee photographed New Mexico homesteaders coping with the Depression, a Lee admirer visits the town for a fresh slice of life
Confronting the British in Boston in 1775, Gen. George Washington honed the qualities that would carry the day in war and sustain the new nation in peace
Severe cold and fraternizing with the Mandan keep Meriwether Lewis' doctoring in demand
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