The one that every schoolchild learns about began in 1804, when Thomas Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their epic journey across North America ... sq mi MAPS: RYAN MORRIS ...

1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston. Many stay in South Carolina to work on rice plantations. 1739: The Stono rebellion breaks out around Charleston ...

Spanning North Carolina and Tennessee, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park gets its name from the natural fog which often ...

Locate them using a large map. Share any holiday photographs from pupils who have visited countries in North America such as Disney World, Florida, US and add them to a map along with other images.

Everyone knows that Halloween is a big deal in America. Come October, you will not be able to find a single store without fake cobwebs and spiders hanging from the ceiling. Since everyone loves ...

“That’s North America just out of your right-hand window,” came the ... but for the 6,000-odd residents who live on the ...

The continent across the Atlantic Ocean, where wildlife thrives among the varied landscapes: North America is the focus ... calls of a prairie dog sounds simple and repetitive, but these ...

“Long before the border existed as a physical or legal reality it began to take form in the minds of Mexicans and Americans who looked at maps of North America to think about what their ...

The heart of the site is the Grand Plaza, which is surrounded by the Central Acropolis, the North Acropolis ... The longest text in Precolumbian America, the stairway provides a history of ...

The new world for which the greatest generation sacrificed in the bloody surf of the Normandy beaches is fading into history ...

However, one of the most remarkable destinations on the map for bird lovers is actually in the Midwest ... Notably, whooping cranes — the tallest bird in North America — have been spotted in Nebraska ...