Russia sold Alaska to the United States for just $7.2 million, about two cents per acre. Today, many historians and analysts call it one of the greatest strategic mistakes in Russian history. But why ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s interest in buying Greenland mirrors the U.S. acquisition of Alaska in 1867 for $7.2 million. While the Alaska deal faced criticism, it proved successful after the ...

It is highly possible that the worn copy I obtained from the state library of Rudolf Ganz’s 1953 study, “The Jews in American Alaska (1867-1880),” was one of the books delivered to Alaska in ...

You have been appointed Commander of the Military District of Alaska, which includes all the Russian-American territory ceded to the United States by the treaty of March 30, 1867. View Full Articl ...

The U.S. bought Alaska from Russia in 1867. To mark the 150th anniversary of the sale in 2017, we asked William L. Iggiagruk Hensley, a visiting professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage ...

Alaska is poised to deliver on the promise of William H. Seward when he pressed the U.S. to purchase the state from Russia in 1867. To use the state’s untold resource wealth and strategic ...

The attack was one of a series of conflicts between the American military and Alaska Natives in the years after the U.S. bought the territory from Russia in 1867. The U.S. Navy issued an apology ...