The last time the United States expanded its territory—gaining the Northern Marianas and some other Pacific islands—President Donald Trump was just a year o ...

In 1867, he came to Secretary of State William Seward with ... In the process of his most famous accomplishment as secretary ...

In the spring of 1867, after the Alaska purchase treaty passed through the House and awaited its time before an eager Senate, newspapers and magazines across the country offered their take on Alaska.

The U.S. bought Alaska from Russia in 1867. To mark the 150th anniversary of the sale in 2017, Willie L. Iggiagruk Hensley, a visiting professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, wrote about ...

Greenland, a vast island covered mostly in ice and located in the Arctic, might seem like a remote, uninhabited land to many.

From the Reconstruction era to the Cold War, multiple administrations have tried (and failed) to acquire the Arctic island.

Mr Trump reportedly insists that the idea of making America’s largest land buy since the Alaska Purchase in 1867 is all his own. But according to The Divider, Mr Trump got the idea from Ronald ...

(Barker made waves in 2009 when he argued that the American purchase of Alaska in 1867, for less than 2 cents per acre, was a bad deal from a purely financial investment perspective.) Here’s his ...

Rev David Watson, of Cumbrae, Fairlie and Largs Parish Church, gives his thoughts on Trump striking a deal over Greenland, and the true value ...

His predations toward Canada, Panama, and Denmark can’t work. But Woodrow Wilson showed how to pick up territory the smart way.