President Donald Trump has refused to rule out military coercion to acquire Greenland and the Panama Canal, and he suggested ...

This week's Ken Bridges Texas History column is part 1 of a 2-part series exploring the disastrous Red River Expedition.

The U.S. initially acquired the rights to build and operate the Panama Canal in 1903 through the Hay–Bunau–Varilla Treaty ...

“Canadian provinces are fiercely independent and protective of their powers in a way that would make even the most fervent ‘state rights’ advocates in the United States blush,” writes Grant Wyeth in ...

It was a quiet day for the world’s stock markets when Donald Trump landed in Quebec in early June 2018 to join other leaders at the G7 summit at Charlevoix. His attendance had been an open question ...

As a result of the 1763 Treaty of Paris ... Thomas Jefferson’s 1803 Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the territory of the United States, ended Iowa’s French period. Iowa’s anti-French ...

Trump is the classic developer on the make: he sees himself as the heir to Thomas Jefferson, who negotiated the Louisiana Purchase treaty with France in 1803; or William Seward, who negotiated the ...

Hayden Island has borne several names. For four decades, it was best known for the Jantzen Beach amusement park. Today, a spread-out shopping center and residential neighborhood inhabit the same sandy ...

Our journey through Iowa’s 99 counties began in January with a visit to Kossuth County in the north, which is not the only location named after Lajos Kossuth, Hungary’s freedom fighter during the ...