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.

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 ...

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

Though the president-elect's rhetoric is unusual, for over a century a succession of US presidents have tried to gain control of Greenland.

Greenland is not an island; it is a mirror — a reflection of the most pressing issues of our time: power, resources, ...

In 1867, after buying Alaska from Russia, US Secretary of State William H Seward led negotiations to buy Greenland from Denmark, but failed to reach any agreement. In 1946, the US offered to pay $ ...