Gadsden and Mexican president-turned-dictator Antonio López de Santa Anna signed an initial $15 million deal in 1853. But that deal was later changed, resulting in a revised sale for $10 million ...

James Gadsden, ambassador to Mexico, purchased the land south of the Gila River from Mexico in 1853, an area first called the Gadsden Purchase, now Southern Arizona. His name lives on today in ...

The Gadsden Purchase was the last big parcel of land acquired in the Lower 48 states, comprising 30,000 square miles of prime Sonoran Desert. ... The purchase is named after James Gadsden, ...

Although James Gadsden accomplished considerable notoriety for his endeavors, he was a racist, bigot and generally not a good individual. It was not that he ever killed anyone, but his deeds ...

Footage of a 12-year-old student being told they must remove a Gadsden flag patch from their bag due to "its origins with slavery" went viral on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday, racking up more ...