Attempting to make the project accessible to those who do not have regular access to the library of a research university, Moulton and Nebraska prepared and released two annotations of the Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition project-a seven-volume soft-cover вЂњdefinitive edition,вЂќ and a one-volume вЂњabridgment.вЂќ Prepared in accordance with modern standards for documentary editing and annotation, the complete thirteen-volume collection has already proven to be a valuable resource for scholars. Moulton and published by the University of Nebraska Press.

The site is the official companion to the recently concluded Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition editorial project, prepared under the editorship of Gary E. Where Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery is primarily aimed at educators, students, and DVD viewers, The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition site is solidly aimed at a scholarly audience. The siteвЂ™s producers have gone a long way toward making the film, and the Lewis and Clark expedition more generally, a teaching resource for a variety of educators. Additionally, the site provides extensive Lewis and Clark-related lesson plans for all grades K-12 and not only for history classes, but also for science, math, and language arts. The level of complexity seems pitched at middle school students, but could appeal to high school students and advanced elementary school students as well. Each choice leads to a different outcome, allowing students to appreciate the contingency of history. Actual events of the expedition are described and then different choices are posed to users (for example, should the Corps of Discovery study or kill a bear that threatens to attack them? Should they camp during a sandstorm or push on into it?). Users are provided with what is essentially a вЂњchoose-your-own-adventureвЂќ experience as they guide the Corps of Discovery from Fort Mandan to the Pacific Ocean. The page called вЂњInto the UnknownвЂќ opens up a truly interactive experience inside a pop-up window. In contrast, the content directed toward students and educators on the site has a great deal more to offer. All told, the film-related content on Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery is about what one would expect to find in a well-done special features section of a DVD. The вЂњInteractive Trail MapвЂќ simply provides links to separate pages, one for each state that Lewis and Clark passed through, which in turn list a few Lewis and Clark-related Web resources for that state-it is good information, but hardly вЂњinteractiveвЂќ on a scale that most Web users have come to expect. The site also contains an вЂњInteractive Trail MapвЂќ that will probably disappoint users of Web-based interactive map platforms such as Google Earth and Microsoft Live Search. There is also an interview with the filmmaker Burns on a separate page. Viewers of the Burns and Duncan film will be interested to find extended interviews with many of the scholars and experts who contributed to that production, including John Logan Allen and James P.

Two groups of users will find it helpful: viewers of the film looking for more information and educators looking to develop lessons, lectures, or discussions with Lewis and Clark content. Like many sites launched as documentary film companions, this one contains content designed to add to the experiences of viewers of the film. Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery is a companion site to the award-winning 1997 film of the same name produced by Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan. Two Web sites in particular that emerged from the bicentennial commemoration should prove to be valuable resources for scholars and educators for years. Additionally, the years immediately before and during the bicentennial saw the release of a large number of new books and films, as well as a great deal of new online content designed to make the expedition accessible to scholars, students, and the general public.

Between 20, students and enthusiasts of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and their world staged a host of events designed to raise public awareness of the expedition. The recently concluded bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition was hard to ignore. Gary Dunham and Katherine Walter University of Nebraska Press, Center for Great Plains Studies, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition PBS Online David Neiman, executive producer Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery

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