"We do believe that people, if they want to understand where we're at today, should look at where we were then," director Peter Berg told a small room of reporters last October, as he, executive ...

The Removal Act of 1830 guaranteed the Indians lands in the west ... as an invasion by Mexico of American land, divided the country, with Democrats siding with expansion, and Abraham Lincoln ...

President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in bringing Greenland and the Panama Canal under U.S. control and ...

Bicknell touches on the many forces at work in America at the time. So we get to learn something ... including anti-Mormonism and anti-Catholicism), immigrant and Nativists, the Westward Movement, ...

November 8, 2024 • In this episode, we speak with distinguished professor, Elliott West, a Pulitzer Prize nominee, and winner of the Bancroft Prize for his book Continental Reckoning: The ...

The writer Horace Greeley, who popularised this idea, advised Americans: Go West, young man. Once the population of an area reached 60,000, it could apply to become a state of the USA. Local ...

The Removal Act of 1830 guaranteed the Indians lands in the west ... as an invasion by Mexico of American land, divided the country, with Democrats siding with expansion, and Abraham Lincoln ...

Bad luck and poor decisions turned the already dangerous trek from Missouri to California into a fatal affair for roughly half of the Donner-Reed party Sarah Holzmann Discovered in a thrift store ...