Seward's Day, also a state holiday, commemorates the signing of the treaty to purchase Russian claims in North America, signed March 30, 1867. It is observed on the last Monday in March. Alaska ...

William H. Seward in 1851, while a U.S. senator from New York (Library of Congress) William H. Seward regarded the purchase of Alaska as his greatest achievement and Alaskans are prone to agree.

Mocked as “Seward’s Folly” and “Andrew Johnson’s Polar Bear Garden”, the purchase of Alaska from Russia turned out to be one of the greatest real estate deals in the history of the ...

Today marks the anniversary of one of the most controversial land deals in American history: the Alaska Purchase or Seward's Folly. On October 18, 1867, the United States took possession of Alaska ...

The following is the testimony given by the Secretary of State and on. ROBERT J. WALKER, before the Committee directed to investigate the rumors in regard to the Alaska purchase money.

The event commemorated Seward's negotiation for the purchase of Alaska in 1867. Some saw the 150-year-old purchase of the territory from Russia as a mistake at the time, famously referring to it ...

The shortage of oil and seafood is the least of America's concerns in Collin Sullivan's "William H. Seward vs. the Soviet Super-Men," a new time-traveling alternate-history comedy taking place ...

Books: Seward’s Icebox. 7 minute read. TIME. October 12, ... William H. Seward, who forced the purchase of Alaska (“Seward’s Icebox”) amid the catcalls of the isolationists of 1867.

There was only one problem. Few Americans outside of Seward saw any reason to purchase Alaska from the Russians. To many Americans, Russian Alaska in the 1860s — decades before the discovery of ...

Mocked as “Seward’s Folly” and “Andrew Johnson’s Polar Bear Garden”, the purchase of Alaska from Russia turned out to be one […] (WHTM) On October 18, 1867, ...