In a recent survey that the Council on Foreign Relations conducted, members of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations ranked the Alaska Purchase as the twenty-sixth best decision in ...
It is a moment from history that is difficult to imagine repeating today. That is why proposals such as President Donald Trump’s suggestion to annex Greenland are widely criticized as anachronistic.
The U.S. has mulled buying Greenland in the past, including an unsuccessful plan in 1867 proposed by Secretary of State William H. Seward, who is remembered for buying Alaska from Russia in the same ...