U.S. commercial fishers can operate in the formerly off-limits Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, President ...

Immerwahr spoke with Smithsonian about these missing chapters of American ... in the Pacific colonies or about the internment of Alaska Natives. Rewriting textbooks to include the territories ...

Explore America and discover people, places, art, history, and other items related to American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam in the Smithsonian's growing digitized ...

Unlike the other territories, American Samoa was never conquered or ... As co-founder of the Utah Pacific Islanders Health ...

But from 1857 to 1910, the United States acquired 13 islands or island groups in the Pacific Ocean, in addition to the purchase of the Alaskan Territories from Russia in 1867. The Spanish-American War ...

While residents of other U.S. territories are U.S. citizens, those born in American Samoa are U.S. nationals ... which are north of Guam, and other Pacific islands under a U.N. trusteeship ...

Stretching westward into the Pacific Ocean, the chain of roughly ... marking the first time that American territory had been occupied since the War of 1812. To Americans from Delaware to Oregon ...

Richmond said he’d worked with Pacific island communities including in American Samoa for decades and respected Congresswoman Radewagen’s duty to consider the territory’s economic needs.