Did you know that veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces get discounts at National Parks and Forests and have access to ...

Polk when he ordered General Zachary Taylor to seize disputed territory along the Mexican border with Texas. In the words of ...

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

What the President’s confrontations with Panama, Greenland, Canada, and Colombia suggest about his expansionist vision.

"54-40 or Fight" was the slogan of supporters James K. Polk in the 1844 presidential campaign, referring to their desire to take a substantial slice of what would eventually become ...

President Donald Trump has been emphatic about his desire to acquire Greenland — the latest development in an eventful saga ...

More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, some Americans are still digging for riches all over California.

His was, no doubt, the most accomplished presidency in the 64 years between George Washington’s and Abraham Lincoln’s. And where Washington and Lincoln had arrived at moments freighted with destiny ...