The territories should have a place, too, in any ongoing discussion of the nation’s complex cultural identity and who can claim to be a so-called real American.

The United States has possession of several overseas territories in the western and central Pacific, a constellation of American islands—including Guam and Saipan, Wake Island, and Palmyra Atoll ...

Today, the U.S. possesses five populated territories — Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands — which are home to over three million people.

The fate of America’s five populated colonies — Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, ... it means that we have no constitutional right to hold overseas territories.

American Samoa has been a U.S. territory since 1900. The U.S. Congress previously has decided on a territory-by-territory basis whether people born in the five overseas territories including ...