Alaska Dispatch News7d
‘Seward’s Folly’ is a myth. Spread the word.
The prevailing narrative of the Alaska purchase, pushed in history textbooks for decades, doesn’t reflect public opinion at the time more than 150 years ago.
The Economist11d
An American purchase of Greenland could be the deal of the century
On January 7th the president-elect declined to rule out using military might or economic warfare in his pursuit of Greenland ...
Alaska Dispatch News6dOpinion
Opinion: Trump’s push to control Greenland echoes US purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867
How and why Russia ceded its control over Alaska to the United States 150 years ago is actually two tales and two ...
SFGate12d
Trump’s push to control Greenland echoes US purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867
Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, Tsar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, his country’s last remaining foothold in North America ...