Commissioner John B. Weller and surveyor Andrew Gray had been sent to the border of the United States and Mexico to mark a line that existed only on maps, and the work was not going well.

The U.S. Army will take control of almost 110,000 acres of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico border. The Department of the Interior (DOI) announced on Tuesday that the land would be transferred ...

World War I involved 32 nations from 1914 to 1919. It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders in Europe. The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and Finland.