President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in bringing Greenland and the Panama Canal under U.S. control and ...

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.

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.

America has expanded its territory through land purchases more than most countries. The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 involved France transferring ownership of about 828,000 square miles of territory ...

The soldiers from Ft. Stoddert, Louisiana Territory, captured the fugitive Aaron Burr on a February morning in 1807, on a muddy road near the hamlet of Wakefield. Burr's fall from grace seemed total.

Donald Trump In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana territory from France. The acquisition from the French Republic consisted of most of the land in the Mississippi River's ...

First, Missouri gained admission to the Union as a slave state, with a provision that portions of the Louisiana Territory lying north of 36' 30' north latitude would be free. (This limitation was ...

In 1805, Wilkinson had been named territorial governor for the Louisiana Territory, which through a somewhat confusing naming scheme meant the territory north of what is now Louisiana ...

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 ...