Hosted on MSN10mon
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.
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 ...
KRVS3d
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 ...
PBS7y
North Louisiana
The Mississippi River left natural levees ... Founded in 1713, Natchitoches, the earliest settlement in the Louisiana Purchase, was settled by the French, creating a unique cultural pocket ...