The one that every schoolchild learns about began in 1804, when Thomas Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their epic journey across North America. The other one is just beginning.

Give pupils an outline map of the continent and ask them ... with blow-up globes and ask pupils to identify continents and point to North America when they catch it. Older children could identify ...

He established that there was no land connection between the Asian and North American continents, and his expedition produced maps that set the navigation standard for the next century.

A total solar eclipse comes to North America on ... most of the rest of the continent outside the path of totality will get a partial eclipse. Are you in the path of totality? NASA has you covered ...

Native Hawaiian Keolu Fox makes the case that Polynesians were history’s greatest seafaring people and their eastern ...

The buckskin map, and our story in this programme, come from the years between the British defeat of the French in North America in 1763, and the outbreak of the American War of Independence in 1776.

As his bush plane circled the craggy peaks of the Alaska Range, the explorer Bradford Washburn peered down and had a burning ...

Women's soccer in Asia can close the gap on Europe and North America with this week's launch of the AFC Women's Champions ...

People seldom mention Milan, Italy, and Cincinnati, Ohio, in the same sentence. One reason they might do so is that both are ...

Intense wildfires in Canada have sparked pollution alerts across swathes of North America as smoke is blown south along the continent's east coast. Toronto, Ottawa, New York and Washington DC are ...

Football on the continent has fallen behind Europe and North America, but new tournament could give boost game, say Urawa ...