Directory of Louisiana Purchase Resources

Information on the United States' Louisiana Purchase.

Resources in This Category

Avalon Project at Yale Law School:The Louisiana Purchase, 1803

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/fr1803m.asp
Contains documents relating to the purchase: treaties, conventions, statutes, and messages to Congress during the period 1800-1804. Also includes Hunter Miller's notes on the 1803 treaty of purchase. From the Avalon Project web site of documents in law, history, and diplomacy.
Teaching about the Louisiana Purchase

http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED479236.pdf
Provides an overview of the Louisiana Purchase with tips for teaching about it to students.
The Louisiana Purchase and the Exploration, Early History, and Building of the West

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/preservation/history/louis/cover.htm
The history of the Louisiana Territory both before and after its purchase by the United States. Text of 1903 book by Ripley Hitchcock.
The Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial in Arkansas

http://www.lapurchase.org/
Bicentennial events in Arkansas, with news and calendar.

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