Greenland is covered by the world's second-largest ice sheet, beaten only by Antarctica. Under this vast expanse of ice lies ...

President Trump has recently expressed a desire to expand American territory to include Greenland, the Panama Canal, and even ...

Russia had decided to sell Alaska, but the question was: how would America buy it? At the time, most Americans couldn’t ...

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.

Travel Guide to Alaska highlights the state's natural beauty, wildlife, Indigenous culture, and vast wilderness, popular for ...

America’s 20th and 19th century expansionists would have been delighted by the president-elect’s proposed land grab.

There has been a great deal of heat – and not an overabundance of light – when it comes to the media’s reactions to Donald ...

The US president-elect does not rule out force to take over the Danish territory – home to a US military base.

William Seward was Lincoln ... Military Commander C.H. Wilkes created a map in 1841 which described the potential boundaries ...

The tale of how and why Russia ceded its control over Alaska to the US 150 years ago is actually 2 tales and 2 intertwining ...

Also on this date: In 1865, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery, was declared in effect by Secretary of State William H. Seward ... St. Petersburg, Russia; although now ...