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

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 ...

Until recently the most that people tended to know about cold and sparsely populated Greenland is that it is not small and ...

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

In the lead-up to his inauguration, President Donald Trump identified a surprising priority: Greenland. Trump wants to ...

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

I clearly recall the factoid from high school geography, that Iceland was purposefully deceptively named and is actually ...

A Danish Member of the European Parliament had some pointed words for President Donald Trump. As he did during his first term, Trump has expressed interest in attempting to acquire Greenland – the ...

Having successfully purchased Alaska, Johnson’s Secretary of State William Seward floated the prospect of buying the islands of Greenland and Iceland, this time from the Danes. Denmark had been ...

President-elect Trump’s talk of taking over or acquiring Greenland is highlighting bipartisan talks about the need to ...