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

This is the article we published then, with minor updates. On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession.

Greenland's geopolitical significance has increased as a result of climate change speeding up the melting of Arctic ice, ...

William H. Seward, Secretary of State 1861-69 ... King Andy and his man Billy lay in a great stock of Russian ice in order to cool down the Congressional majority." It includes caricatures ...

And so, Russia decided, “Selling Alaska is the right choice!” But how did this deal come to fruition? How did U.S. leader William H. Seward make it happen, and why was it later called ...

He is in good company. William H. Seward, President Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of state, purchased Alaska from Russia in a deal that was long derided as “Seward’s Folly.” Seward also ...

The fact is that Trump is not the first, nor likely last, American political leader to covet Canada. Former U.S. president Thomas Jefferson also felt that Canada should be part of the United States.

Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images The first time was in 1867 when the then powerful secretary of state William H. Seward, fresh off buying Alaska from Russia, floated the idea. It ...

Manifest Destiny met luxury cosmetics when makeup billionaire and Republican donor Ronald Lauder mentioned buying Greenland ...