Map of Louisiana ... on May 2, 1803. Thus, with a few strokes of a pen, and after much sturm und drang in the halls of Congress (Long story, some other time) the United States of America doubled ...

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, President Thomas Jefferson sent a ... “for the purpose of extending the external commerce of the United States.” The appropriation would be “understood and considered ...