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 ...

What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...

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

The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to ...

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

Interest in buying Greenland has "popped up from time to time in American politics," Tom Høyem, Denmark's former minister to ...

Rather than appeal to Denmark’s goodwill, President Trump’s rhetoric risks trapping the U.S. in a cycle of increasing ...

Thanks to a series of comments by President-elect Donald Trump over Christmas, Greenland is, well, a hot topic ...

Manifest Destiny met luxury cosmetics when makeup billionaire and Republican donor Ronald Lauder mentioned buying Greenland ...

Greenland is the world's largest island, but most of it is covered by ice. Its southern tip, however, is sprinkled with ...

Mr. Trump is tapping into this social and intellectual history, promising to “pursue our Manifest Destiny into the stars” — ...