The one that every schoolchild learns about began in 1804, when Thomas Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their epic journey across North America ... sq mi MAPS: RYAN MORRIS ...

1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston. Many stay in South Carolina to work on rice plantations. 1739: The Stono rebellion breaks out around Charleston ...

Civil War's United States has been splintered into multiple warring factions, but a shared enemy has united most of them ...

When plotting out their maps of North America, many 18th-century European cartographers relied on accounts that drifted across their desks. These were a collage of nautical references, local lore ...

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina, the Republican nominee for governor, vowed to stay in the race and pre-emptively ...

The heart of the site is the Grand Plaza, which is surrounded by the Central Acropolis, the North Acropolis ... The longest text in Precolumbian America, the stairway provides a history of ...

Locate them using a large map. Share any holiday photographs from pupils who have visited countries in North America such as Disney World, Florida, US and add them to a map along with other images.

Dull in appearance but notable for its effervescent song, the house wren is a common summer inhabitant of scrublands and woodland edges throughout much of North America ... is of a plain, typical ...

A former Soviet air base built north of Kabul on the Shomali plain, the base is now home to U.S., British and other coalition troops involved in the Afghan campaign. • The base is home to units ...

People with low health literacy—roughly half of all adults in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand ... jargon filled and inappropriate for those with low health literacy. Applying plain ...

From theater and dance performances to comedy shows and concerts, see what’s on the calendar around the Hub this fall.

A recent park visitor who dropped a bag full of Cheetos created a "huge impact" on the cave's ecosystem at Carlsbad Caverns ...