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The Louisiana Purchase transferred imperial title over 828,000 square miles to the United States, triggering a long cascade of displacement, treaty-making, and legal claims that reshaped Indigenous sovereignty across the continent.
Several U.S. presidents have tried to buy territory or land — most famously Thomas Jefferson with the Louisiana Purchase and Andrew Johnson with Alaska — while others have proposed purchases (or engag...
The Logan Act, passed in 1799 to bar unauthorized private diplomacy, has produced at most two known federal indictments in U.S. history—one in the early 1800s and one in the 1850s—and neither led to a...
transferred imperial title over 828,000 square miles to while largely ignoring the people who already lived there, triggering a long cascade of displacement, treaty-making, and legal claims that resha...