In late April 1803, with the stroke of a pen and the exchange of just $15 million, the United States nearly doubled in size. With the Louisiana Purchase, the U.S. acquired nearly 827,000 square ...

But not of the type we’ve been taught, a fleecing of the shortsighted French. To cherish the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 as one of history’s great real estate deals requires buying into a myth.

The Louisiana Purchase changed the trajectory of U.S. expansion in the beginning of the 19th century, allowing the size of the country to grow by 530,000,000 acres. And at only a cost to the U.S ...

The Louisiana Purchase changed the trajectory of U.S. expansion in the beginning of the 19th century, allowing the size of the country to grow by 530,000,000 acres. And at only a cost to the U.S ...

On this day in 1803, Robert Livingston, the U.S. minister to France, and James Monroe signed the Louisiana Purchase Treaty in Paris, doubling the size of the United States and paving the way for ...

On this day in 1803, Robert Livingston, the U.S. minister to France, and James Monroe, a future president, signed the Louisiana Purchase Treaty - an accord that doubled the size of the United ...

The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of the United States and the cost of about four cents an acre was a breathtaking bargain. The Granger Collection, New York UNDERSTANDABLY, Pierre ...

On Dec. 20, 1803, the Louisiana Purchase was completed as France’s flag was replaced by the American flag in a New Orleans ceremony. In 1860 South Carolina became the first state to secede from ...

The Louisiana Public Service Commission approved a plan that commissioners say will increase competition among energy providers ... None of the 1803 Cooperatives’ 120,000 customers are located ...

Royal Caribbean International certainly is spicing up cruises from Cajun country. This year, on all departures from New Orleans aboard the 1,950-passenger Grandeur of the Seas, the line tosses in a… ...

The Louisiana Purchase changed the trajectory of U.S. expansion in the beginning of the 19th century, allowing the size of the country to grow by 530,000,000 acres. And at only a cost to the U.S ...