Though the president-elect's rhetoric is unusual, for over a century a succession of US presidents have tried to gain control ...
America’s 20th and 19th century expansionists would have been delighted by the president-elect’s proposed land grab.
Trump, believe it or not, isn’t the first president or elected U.S. official to propose buying Greenland. William Seward, the Secretary of State responsible for purchasing Alaska from Russia in ...
The prevailing narrative of the Alaska purchase, pushed in history textbooks for decades, doesn’t reflect public opinion at the time more than 150 years ago.