This is an expedition history. It does not describe actual records. The Smithsonian Institution Archives uses these histories as brief accounts of expeditions to set it in its historical context. If ...

The Red River Expedition, commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson, aimed to explore the Red River Valley and its surrounding territories. Led by Captain Richard Sparks, Thomas Freeman, and Peter ...

FARGO — The Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806, which went through the present-day northwestern U.S., was filled with high expectations. Government officials knew very little about this region, ...

The largest Arctic science expedition in history came to a close yesterday, as the German research vessel Polarstern sailed into the port at Bremerhaven, Germany. The Polarstern spent the past year ...

Five years ago, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, often referred to as the world’s greatest living explorer, began plotting to knock off one of the last great milestones in polar exploration: skiing 2,000 miles ...

On June 7, 1913, Alaska Native Walter Harper was the first person to summit Denali, the highest peak in North America. And though the face of our nation has evolved from mostly white to a mosaic of ...