On Friday, the American Legion of St. Croix welcomed National Commander James A. LaCoursiere Jr. with a tour of the St. Croix ...

Democrat leaders in the territory were far less optimistic.

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 ...

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

President Trump isn’t taking “no” for an answer on acquiring Greenland. Although the self-governing territory and its ...

The time has come to stop debating Trump’s intentions and instead focus on how to implement the first expansion of American ...

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

William McKinley, the 25th president, loved tariffs and expanded American territory. What more do you need to know?

“This body and this nation has a territories and a colonies ... before being cut off again. Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin ...

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