Set within one of the more brutal and uncompromising periods of American history — the 19th Century Westward expansion — the show depicts the run-up to and fallout around one of the biggest recognized ...

Discover how lesser-known western migration trails alongside the .....Platte, and Sweetwater Rivers helped shape American agriculture and ...

Discover how the Oregon Trail helped shape American agriculture, connected settlers to fertile western farmland, and influenced U.S. farming ...

Which way is west? At the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, there's a compass that helped two important people answer that question. In honor of the 250th anniversary of the ...

Prologue: New Year's Day at the White House -- "This glorious hope" -- A prophet for president -- "Annexation and war...are identical" -- "Who the devil is Polk?" -- The missionary and the publicist - ...