Exploration and Westward Expansion
Explorers, Surveys, and Expeditions
Articles
An Artist in the Rockies. Prologue. Spring 2016, Vol. 48, No. 1
In the National Archives Catalog
Photographs
In the National Archives Catalog
Photographs
In the National Archives Catalog
Photographs
In the National Archives Catalog
Photographs
Alaska
Articles
The Alaskan Frontier in Panorama: How the National Archives Preserved Early 20th-Century Photographs, Prologue Magazine article, Winter 2009
In the National Archives Catalog
Journals of Explorations, 1842 - 1864 [Lieutenant Lavrentii A. Zagoskin / Captain N. Arkhimandritov]
Arctic
Articles
Women of the Polar Archives The Films and Stories of Marie Peary Stafford and Louise Boyd, Prologue Magazine article, Summer 2010
The Arctic Sketches of Russell W. Porter, Prologue Magazine article, Winter 1997
Videos
Building the Peary Monument, arctic expedition 1932
In the National Archives Catalog
Articles
Jefferson Looks Westward: President Secretly Sought Funds from Congress to Explore Louisiana Territory, Develop Trade. Prologue Magazine article, Winter 2002
In the National Archives Catalog
“Publicity and Procedural Materials Relating to the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, 1905”
Printed Materials Relating to the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, 1903 - 1906
Message of President Thomas Jefferson concerning the success of the expedition of Lewis and Clark
Documents of the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Meriwether Lewis
Natchez Trace Parkway - Meriwether Lewis Monument, photograph
Other Resources:
Digitized copy of the journals of Lewis and Clark (University of Nebraska website)
American Philosophical Society Library, Lewis and Clark Journals, 1804- 1806
Migrations and Migrants
Articles
Photographs
Conflicts and Military
Articles
Trading Gray for Blue: Ex-Confederates Hold the Upper Missouri for the Union, Prologue Magazine article, Winter 2005
In the National Archives Catalog
Photographs
Photograph of Mexican-American War Flag
Articles
- Snakes & Scribes, The Dawes Commission and the Enrollment of the Creeks, Prologue Magazine article, Spring 1997
- The Search for the Site of the Sand Creek Massacre, Prologue Magazine article, Summer 2001
- A Victor in Defeat: Chief Gall's Life on the Standing Rock Reservation, Prologue Magazine article. Fall 2008
- Jesse S. Haire: Unwilling Indian Fighter, Prologue Magazine article, Summer 2011
Teaching Resources
The Impact of Westward Expansion on Native American Communities
Teaching with Documents Lesson Plan: Sioux Treaty of 1868
Additional NARA Resources
Photograph of General George Armstrong Custer, ca. 1862 - 1963
Claims of the State of Minnesota Relating to Indian Wars, 1862 - 1865
Other Resources
- Photographs from the American West
- Exploration Web Links from the Archives Library Information Center
- Louisiana Purchase
- Territorial Records on Microfilm
- Land Entry Case files and Homesteads
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