The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land ...

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

His was, no doubt, the most accomplished presidency in the 64 years between George Washington’s and Abraham Lincoln’s. And where Washington and Lincoln had arrived at moments freighted with destiny ...

President Donald Trump has refused to rule out military coercion to acquire Greenland and the Panama Canal, and he suggested ...

In an essay entitled Annexation ... at least in the case of Texas, led to the expansion of slavery. In the 1844 presidential faceoff, James Polk, the Democratic candidate, defeated Henry Clay ...

Walker, the former treasury secretary under President James K. Polk and an avowed American expansionist. At various points, ...

Popular columnist John O’Sullivan coined the phrase “manifest destiny” in 1845 in arguing for Texas’ annexation ... This belief, adopted by President James K. Polk, dismissed the ...

John Tyler annexed Texas. James Polk negotiated boundaries for Oregon ... After the Civil War, William McKinley oversaw the annexation of Hawaii and victory in the Spanish-American War, which ...

During his news conference with Mr. Netanyahu on Tuesday, Mr. Trump was asked directly whether he supported Israeli annexation of the West Bank. He declined to answer, saying that his ...