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The Louisiana Purchase

INTERNET SOURCES

Louisiana Purchase Websites

• http://www.nps.gov/jeff On March 10, 1804, a ceremony was held in the frontier city of St. Louis transferring Upper Louisiana to the United States of America. Explorers Lewis and Clark were among those attending. Today, the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis commemorates both the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Its website (listed above) provides pertinent information about both the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Profiles of important people involved in both of these historical events are included.
• http://www.nara.gov/exhall/originals/loupurch.html At this website, you may see photos of the original Louisiana Purchase documents that are now housed in the National Archives in Washington, D. C.
• http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/france/fr1803m.htm This website sponsored by Yale University provides the texts of many documents related to the Louisiana Purchase including the Louisiana Purchase document itself, the Treaty of San Ildefonso in which Spain agreed to return Louisiana to France, President Jefferson's messages to Congress about funding the purchase, and the acts of Congress that ratified and financed the deal.
• http://www.jmu.edu/madison/louispurchase.htm A vivid color map of the Louisiana Territory may be viewed at this website.

Websites about Participants in the Louisiana Purchase
Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I)

• Click on http://www.bctf.bc.ca/lessonaids/online/LA2036.html for a mock trial of Napoleon Bonaparte written by a student in a Canadian high school. The trial is to decide whether Napoleon was a ruthless dictator or a benefactor of the French people.
• http://www.napoleon.org/en/fondation/what_we_offer/index.asp. Website of the Napoleon Foundation in Paris France. (The text is in English.) The foundation is devoted to the study of Napoleon and his times. There is also a section for young people on the website called "Fun Stuff."
• http://come.to/napoleon Click on this website for links to many Internet sources about Napoleon.

King Louis XIV

• http://www.louis-xiv.de/ This is a lavish and colorful website about King Louis XIV with pictures of the Palace of Versailles and portraits of many members of French royalty. An excellent essay about the character of Louis XIV is also presented.
• http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1704duchess.html. At the king's court at Versailles, etiquette and good manners were very important. This website offers an interesting letter written in 1704 by the Duchess of Orleans, King Louis XIV's sister-in-law. In her letter (to the Duchess of Hanover), she describes how she complained directly to King Louis XIV about discourteous treatment from some of the younger ladies in the royal court, and how he immediately put a stop to it.

Websites for Period Costumes

• http://www.kipar.org/ European styles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are featured on this colorful website.
• http://www.history.org/ A website about colonial Williamsburg with people wearing period costumes.
• http://home.earthlink.net/~dawise/blackdog.htm Black dog was an Osage chief who lived in the St. Louis region in the early nineteenth century. This website includes a painting of him done in 1834 by George Catlin.

BOOK SOURCES

Louisiana Purchase for Young People
Blumberg, Rhonda. What's the Deal? : Jefferson, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase.
This is an attractively formatted and well-written book about the Louisiana Purchase for upper elementary students. Adults who want to review or learn basic information about the Louisiana Purchase will also find it helpful.

Kozar, Richard. Lewis and Clark: Explorers of the Louisiana Purchase. Chelsea House, 2000. The Lewis and Clark Expedition was planned and approved months before the unexpected Louisiana Purchase took place. When the time to leave came, however, the United States owned the territory. This book, recommended for ages 9-12, tells of their adventures in America's newest territory.

Louisiana Purchase for Adults and Young Adults
Sprague, Marshall. So Vast So Beautiful a Land: Louisiana and the Purchase. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974. A detailed and charmingly written book about the Louisiana Purchase. It covers more than a century--from 1682 when French explorer, La Salle, claimed it for France, to 1803 when Thomas Jefferson acquired it for the United States. It contains many personal anecdotes about the interesting people who took part in the Louisiana Purchase.

Books with Period Costumes
Draper, Allison Stark. What People Wore in Colonial America. Powerkids Press, 2001.
Starobinski, Jean and Duboy, Phillipe. Revolution in Fashion: European Clothing 1715-1815. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 1990
Wilson, Terry P. Indians of America: The Osage. New York, NY: Chelsea Publishing, 1988.

Books about the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904
The official name for the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904 was the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Its purpose was to celebrate the Centennial of the Louisiana Purchase by demonstrating the technological wonders and social improvements that had occurred in America in one hundred years. The Exposition also featured members of many different world cultures that were beginning to vanish, even then. The following books are filled with photographs and personal accounts from visitors to the Exposition.

Birk, Dorothy Daniels. The World Came to St. Louis: A Visit to the 1904 World's Fair.
Chalice Press, 1992.

Breitbart, Eric. A World on Display 1904: Photographs from the St. Louis World's Fair. University of New Mexico Press, 1997.

Clevenger, Martha R., Ed. 'Indescribably Grand': Diaries and Letters from the 1904 World's Fair. St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society, 1996.