In 2003 the United States will celebrate the bicentennial of an event that was much more than a simple real estate transfer between the French government and the newly established American Republic. The acquisition of Louisiana territory was one of the defining moments in Americ…
Alphabetical entries cover significant events, personalities, and documents associated with the Louisiana Purchase.
"In 1803, the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land from France at a price of approximately three cents per acre, dramatically altering the young nation's geography and its political future. President Thomas Jefferson had struggled for three years over the purchas…
In 1803, the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land from France at a price of approximately three cents per acre, dramatically altering the young nation's geography and its political future. President Thomas Jefferson had struggled for three years over the purchase…
Overview: In 1803, the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land from France at a price of approximately three cents per acre, dramatically altering the young nation's geography and its political future. President Thomas Jefferson had struggled for three years over th…
The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 1803-1898
by Levinson, Sanford, Onuf, Peter S., Graber, Mark A., Go, Julian, Brands, H. W., Sparrow, Bartholomew, Burnett, Christina Duffy, Currie, David P., Freehling, William W., Kens, Paul, Lawson, Gary, Ramos, Efrén Rivera, Seidman, Guy
In this long overdue collection, Sanford Levinson and Bartholomew Sparrow bring together noted scholars in American history, constitutional law, and political science to examine the role that the Louisiana Purchase played in shaping both the expansionist policies of the nineteen…
The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 1803-1898
by Levinson, Sanford, Onuf, Peter S., Graber, Mark A., Go, Julian, Brands, H. W., Sparrow, Bartholomew, Burnett, Christina Duffy, Currie, David P., Freehling, William W., Kens, Paul, Lawson, Gary, Ramos, Efrén Rivera, Seidman, Guy
In this long overdue collection, Sanford Levinson and Bartholomew Sparrow bring together noted scholars in American history, constitutional law, and political science to examine the role that the Louisiana Purchase played in shaping both the expansionist policies of the nineteen…
American westward expansion dominates the history of the nineteenth century. Two instances of this expansion involved armed rebellion. West Florida was the first armed revolt that preceded American annexation of a formerly European territory. Led mostly by Americans, the West Fl…
This thesis focuses on the Sabine Strip, the land between Natchitoches, Louisiana, and Nacogdoches, Texas, as an alternative to the Neutral Ground as it extends into modern day Texas. Its parameters, and its historians, fail to look past the Sabine River at its greater connotati…
