President Trump isn’t the first U.S. politician to be interested in Greenland — not by a long shot.

There's a long history of expansionism in the United States, though it's been a while since "buying" another country was ...

While resisting the persistent courtship of its American suitor, Greenland’s left-leaning, independence-minded government in ...

The rolling hills and serene lakes of upstate New York's Finger Lakes region hold stories as powerful as the landscape is ...

When former New York Sen. and Secretary of State William H. Seward proposed buying Alaska back in the 1860s, there was significant backlash. It was called “Seward’s folly” at the time.

A man holds out a fake "Trump bill" with Bible verses on the back that he is handing out to supporters of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump lining up on the National Mall for a MAGA victory rally at ...

The tug of war between Denmark and America over Greenland is about much more than Donald Trump’s trademark bluster. It is also a story of colonialism, superpower rivalry and a misprint on a map.

Around the same time, Johnson's secretary of state William H Seward approached the Danish government with a similar proposal for Greenland and Iceland. Until that point, Greenland hadn't attracted ...