From the Reconstruction era to the Cold War, multiple administrations have tried (and failed) to acquire the Arctic island.

Here’s what happened the last three times the U.S. tried to acquire Greenland.

In 1865, in the wake of the Civil War, the U.S. began looking to expand its influence on the world stage. This happened at ...

The prime minister said that while Greenlanders do not want to become Americans, “the reality is we are going to work with ...

Greenland is located to the northeast of Canada ... distant land first arrived to set up residency. It was not until World War II that the U.S. established a presence on the island, when then ...

A Trumpian grab for Greenland over the objection of Denmark ... we fought against an aggressive war of conquest in World War II. To quote from the resignation letter that Chairman of the Joint ...

"Greenland is a wonderful place ... with the US -- which she described as Denmark's most important since World War II. A number of Danish party leaders were called to the prime minister's office ...

In 1867, when President Andrew Johnson bought Alaska, he also considered purchasing Greenland. At the end of World War II, the Truman administration offered Denmark $100 million for the island ...

As Donald Trump Jr. made a surprise visit to Greenland this week, President-elect Donald Trump's rhetoric is getting more serious about buying Denmark's Arctic territory. The president-elect did ...