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The Roman Senate functioned as an advisory body to Rome's magistrates and was composed of the city's most experienced public servants and society's elite. Its decisions carried great weight, even if these were not always converted into laws...

James Monroe (1758-1831) was an American statesman who served as the fifth president of the United States (1817-1825). The fourth president to belong to the so-called 'Virginia Dynasty', and the last of the generation of the Founding Fathers...

The Constitutional Convention was held at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 25 May to 17 September 1787. Spurred on by economic troubles left over from the American Revolution and compounded by the weak Articles of Confederation...

The Ark Passes Over the Jordan, gouache on board by James Tissot, c. 1896-1902. Jewish Museum, New York.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) was a US military expedition of exploration, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, whose goal was to explore the newly acquired western lands that comprised the Louisiana Purchase and to reach...

The Missouri River. Photo taken by Hans Andersen in Bismarck, North Dakota, USA in 2004 from the vantage point of the The Meriwether Restaurant looking toward the north. The photo resonates in the line from the Cheyenne legend Old Woman's...

Butte de Mort, Sioux Burial Ground, Upper Missouri, oil on canvas by George Catlin, 1837-1839. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.

A nesting least tern pair in the sandbar habitat on the Missouri River below Gavins Point Dam. Yankton, South Dakota, USA. Photograph and caption by Robert Etzel. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Digital Library.

The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre was a widespread slaughter of French Protestants (Huguenots) by Catholics beginning on 24 August 1572 and lasting over two months, resulting in the deaths of between 5,000 and 25,000 people. It began in...

Western Civilization is forever indebted to the people of ancient Greece and Rome. Among the numerous contributions these societies made are in the fields of art, literature and philosophy; however, perhaps their greatest gift to future generations...