Why didn’t the United States annex Canada during earlier historical periods? In short, because it didn’t want to. President ...

As a student of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) at the University of Delaware, Seward was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve in 1954. He trained as ...

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Sunny with a high of 44 °F (6.7 °C). Winds variable at 6 to 16 mph (9.7 to 25.7 kph). Night - Clear. Winds variable at 4 to 6 mph (6.4 to 9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 21 °F (-6.1 °C ...

Mostly sunny with a high of 13 °F (-10.6 °C). Winds from NW to WNW at 10 to 16 mph (16.1 to 25.7 kph). Night - Cloudy with a 40% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 3 to 9 mph (4.8 to 14.5 kph) ...

Robert J. Walker, a 19th century senator turned Washington-based lobbyist and one of the driving forces behind the annexation of Texas, desired the Danish colony of Greenland. In 1868, he reported to ...

The United States has long had an interest in the world’s largest island. In the 1860s, Secretary of State William Seward commissioned a report that contemplated purchasing Greenland. During World War ...

At government buildings across Alaska, protesters gathered Monday to oppose recent actions within the federal government, ...

Walker tasked the United States Coast Survey with putting together the report. Seward had given hints of his sympathies as early as 1846. “Our population is destined to roll its resistless waves ...

Lincoln was a crony capitalist on economic policy, advocating protectionist tariffs, corporate welfare for railroad ...

It was a quiet day for the world’s stock markets when Donald Trump landed in Quebec in early June 2018 to join other leaders ...