Intrigued by Walker’s suggestion, Seward — who was negotiating with Copenhagen to purchase the Danish West Indies — asked ...

From the Reconstruction era to the Cold War, multiple administrations have tried (and failed) to acquire the Arctic island.

In 1865, in the wake of the Civil War, the U.S. began looking to expand its influence on the world stage. This happened at ...

Here’s what happened the last three times the U.S. tried to acquire Greenland.

Though the president-elect's rhetoric is unusual, for over a century a succession of US presidents have tried to gain control of Greenland.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich’s ‘Our New Neighbors at Ponkapog’ The possibility of the United States acquiring Greenland has been kicking around Washington for so long that William Seward had the ...

This is the article we published then, with minor updates. On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession.

January 8, 2025 at 5:06 p.m. ·9 min read On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, ...