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. of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – On this day 213 years ...

Two hundred years ago today, the United States bought perhaps the biggest real-estate bargain of the millennium, the Louisiana Purchase. Signed in Paris on April 30, 1803, the Louisiana Purchase ...

It’s been described as the greatest real estate purchase in the history of the United States — President Thomas Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase in 1803. And while it reaches far beyond Southeast ...

On October 20, 1803, the Senate ratified a treaty with France, promoted by President Thomas Jefferson, that doubled the size of the United States. But was Jefferson empowered to make that $15 million ...

Aging pieces of paper. A knife and fork. A portrait of Napoleon. They seem like disparate items, randomly put together. But they all played a role in one of the most important events in American -- ...

ST. LOUIS • The velvet-bound documents that make up the Louisiana Purchase live deep in Washington’s National Archives, in acid-free boxes on low-light shelves inside a humidity-controlled vault. The ...

PARIS (WHTM) — Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte had a bit of a problem. Once upon a time, specifically in the mid 1700s, France was the biggest European presence in what would eventually become the United ...

This week (May 2) in 1803, the United States and France formally signed the treaty that transferred the Louisiana Territory, including the port city of New Orleans, to the United States for the paltry ...

In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson got the steal of a lifetime: The Louisiana Purchase. At the time, Napoleon Bonaparte — once intent upon expanding the French empire — offered the 530 million acres ...