President-elect Donald Trump has cited national security concerns in suggesting the U.S. take over Greenland, but it’s unlikely to become the first new American territory since 1989.

From coast to coast across the U.S.—and even within some lakes in those states and spaces between—island escapes vie for your precious vacation days.

The formation of the United States of the Ionian Islands under British rule in Greece is a little known period of the country ...

In the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico lies a region boasting ... prompting the nickname “Sky Islands.” A unique array of geographic, topographic and climatic influences create a ...

While there is strong bipartisan support for a robust U.S. presence in the Pacific, the increasingly competitive global ...

COFA is an agreement of economic assistance between the United States and the Marshall Islands until 2043. The reinstatement ...