President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in bringing Greenland and the Panama Canal under U.S. control and suggested making Canada the 51st state.

Fifteen million dollars is the original amount spent by the U.S. to France for The Louisiana Purchase, and by today's standards, the price of the expansive territory is still considered a steal.

And whereas in pursuance of the Treaty and particularly of the third article the French Republic has an incontestible title to the domain and to the possession of the said Territory--The First ...

National Archives The Louisiana Purchase ... Jefferson negotiated the purchase of the territory. While many who had criticized Jefferson forgot their misgivings in the wake of the sale, New ...

The U.S. shrugged when Thomas Jefferson blocked funding for a program he hated. Richard Nixon did the same with programs he didn’t like.

Donald Trump is doubling down on his desire to purchase Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark ... and approval by the Senate. From the Louisiana Purchase to the Alaska Purchase and ...

In that century, the U.S. acquired the Louisiana Purchase, half of Mexico, the Oregon Territory, Hawaii, Alaska, the Philippines, Guam, Samoa and Guantanamo Bay. Trump now covets Greenland ...

France officially transferred its claim to the Louisiana Territory to the United States. President Thomas Jefferson had purchased the territory about a year earlier for the price of $15 million. The ...