American Studies in Scandinavia 54:2
Journal: American Studies in Scandinavia
Year: 2022

The history of US-Greenland relations and the perception of Greenland in the US is a near complete historical desideratum with only few works dealing with the subject at all and those publications covering mainly the few wellknown historic events. Neither US nor Danish or Greenlandic historians have dealt with the perception of Greenland in the US from Early Modern to today in its entirety. The article provides an overview of the history of the perception of Greenland in the US and the bilateral