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 ...
Seward’s ice box, and Johnson’s polar bear garden proliferated. William H. Seward, Secretary of State 1861-69. (Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons) Unfortunately, the idea of Seward’s ...