How the U.S. acquired its lands — as Trump eyes territorial expansion
President Donald Trump has refused to rule out military coercion to acquire Greenland and the Panama Canal, and he suggested ...
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Anna's Thinking Cap: Iowa’s 99, the Mississippi River counties | Column
Iowa’s anti-French sentiments are reflected in Clayton County’s Elkader, named after Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhyi al-Din, an ...
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Trump’s push to control Greenland echoes US purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867
Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of ... had title to the territory as its original inhabitants and having not lost the land in war or ceded it to any country ...
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McKinley's ghost inspires Trump, unsettles broader world
CONTRARY to popular belief, the president that United States President Donald Trump admires most is not Russian President ...
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El Derecho de Retorno: In Support of the Mexican Reconquista
As per the terms of the treaty, Mexico ceded its vast territories (~1.37 million km ²) that were in contention. This territory, combined with that of Tejas (which was officially annexed by the U ...
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The American West: Gateway To The West – St. Louis, Missouri
Kaskaskia, Vincennes, and Fort Chartres, along with several other settlements in the Illinois country, were officially surrendered as part of the Treaty of Paris signed that ... the Treaty of ...
Foreign Affairs20d
How Biden Failed on Human Rights
Sarah Yager is Washington Director at Human Rights Watch. She worked on human rights under three U.S. presidents and from ...
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European leaders rebuke Trump’s refusal to rule out military force in Greenland
Negotiations and treaty stipulations slowly ceded control to the Panamanian government until 1999, when full control was turned over. The president-elect claims operations of the passage are being ...