William Lewis

The Oxford poets of the 1930s–W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Stephen Spender, and Louis MacNeice–represented the first concerted British challenge to the domination of twentieth-century poetry by the innovations of American modernists such as

On May 14, 1804, a party of explorers dispatched by President Thomas Jefferson set off up the Missouri River into America's newly acquired Louisiana Territory. Under the leadership of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the men of the Corps of Discovery would cross the continent and into history. Here, from award-winning historian Ralph K. Andrist, is the dramatic story of their epic journey.