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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Influenza A in Nebraska, up 288 cases from the week before. Influenza B positives were lighter at 266 cases, up 31 from the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Intrigued by Walker’s suggestion, Seward — who was negotiating with Copenhagen to purchase the Danish West Indies — asked Walker to prepare a report describing what the United States stood to gain ...

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 ...