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10 weird facts about the Louisiana Purchase
Had the United States not made the Louisiana Purchase, Americans would not have had access to the Mississippi River. Not one, but two different Red Rivers were the Southern and Eastern borders of ...
Bridges Texas History: The disastrous Red River Expedition, Part 1
This week's Ken Bridges Texas History column is part 1 of a 2-part series exploring the disastrous Red River Expedition.
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The Lower Mississippi River’s largest ecosystem restoration project got the federal go-ahead. The next hurdle: funding
A first-of-its-kind project seeking to restore river ecosystems along 39 miles of the Lower Mississippi River has federal ...
How the U.S. acquired its lands — as Trump eyes territorial expansion
President Donald Trump has refused to rule out military coercion to acquire Greenland and the Panama Canal, and he suggested ...
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A 300-Year Struggle
With the Louisiana Purchase, President Thomas Jefferson ... The worst flood in the Mississippi River up until this time opens more than 200 breaches in the river's levees, most of them in ...
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Texas History Minute: The Red River expedition that never reached its goal
The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 sparked a new wave of exploration in the United States as a number of expeditions were ...