Media and Reviews

Scott Rank interviewed me on the History Unplugged podcast. We discussed El Salvador's request to join the Union, a scheme to acquire Kamchatka, Syria’s fate after World War I, what makes for a good future U.S. state, and much more. 

I argue in The Hill that Donald Trump is the most ambitious annexationist president in the modern era, but he's unlikely to achieve any of his territorial goals. 

I tell the fascinating story of Rio Rico in The New Republic. A town that was part of Mexico in every practical sense turned out to be built on American soil. Were children born there U.S. citizens? 

I write in Law & Liberty about America's evolving history of expansionism, and why annexation gave way to other forms of international influence and control. 

My piece in The Hill examines the long history of U.S. attempts to annex Cuba, and how they inform today's debates over the island.

I suggest in RealClearDefense that instead of trying to annex Greenland, the U.S. should revive the post-World War II model of free association.

I argue in The Hill that Donald Trump's questions about why Denmark has a right to Greenland display historical amnesia. The piece was republished in The Washington Post.

American Heritage published an excerpt from America, but Bigger: The story of America's first attempt to acquire Greenland after the Civil War.