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

Seward’s ice box, and Johnson’s polar bear garden proliferated. William H. Seward, Secretary of State 1861-69. (Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons) Unfortunately, the idea of Seward’s ...

“Our population is destined to roll its resistless waves to the icy barriers of the north,” said William Henry Seward 101 years ago. Twenty-one years later, he bought one of the Arctic marches ...